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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... lower at 4,498 points, on a volume of 41,457 contracts. The local market opened about three per cent lower, sparked by a huge selloff in New York, where the Dow Jones industrial average and S&P500 index both slumped more than three per cent. The Dow ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
The Australian stock market is expected to post a huge decline at the start of Friday's trading day, following a horror night on offshore markets as Wall Street shed more than three per cent and commodities prices went backwards. At 0757 AEST on the ...

Future Fund tops up alternatives

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... at just under $14 billion, down 3.4 per cent compared to three months ago ($15.7 billion). Cash holdings, which made up a huge 41 per cent of total assets ($22 billion) in June last year, now sits at $10.5 billion, or 16.5 per cent of the fund. The $10.5 ...

Tech aids capital markets

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
... stronger pre-trade risk mechanisms to lower the risk of 'fat finger' trades and quantitative trading platforms selling off huge amounts of stocks. While it will take time to implement those mechanisms, the firm predicts that within the next year banks ...

New tech to track contribution caps

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... receiving from them is that constantly monitoring their clients' contributions against the caps in place is both a concern and a huge job," said Chang. "By introducing the online reporting feature to Macquarie Wrap we believe we can make this process ...

HOSTPLUS and ME drop Melbourne Storm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
... release. Prior to this controversy, David Elia, chief executive at HOSTPLUS, said advertising with the rugby league team brought huge brand awareness in New South Wales, Queensland and one of its key growth areas, Victoria. Roy Morgan research released ...

Trust is a hard currency: research

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
... 'bad press' and 'being owned by a bank' count for little. Sally Wells, managing director of endgame communications, said a huge component of investors and clients' trust in a financial brand stems from openness of communication. In AXA's case, Wells ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... Exchange, the June share price index contract was 19 points higher at 4,961, on volume of 9,582 contracts. "There's not been huge movement anywhere in particular, but the energy sector and the miners are doing pretty well," CommSec market analyst Steve ...

RBS adds to Aus markets team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... to reinforce our ongoing commitment to the Australian business and, in particular, to our markets business, where we see huge growth potential over the coming three to five years," said Stephen Williams, country executive and head of global banking and ...

Greenspan put

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... that yields on US government bonds have been rising in recent days which he attributes to investors' trepidation over "this huge overhang of federal debt which we have never seen before." Has anyone seen US$1,400,000,000,000 before? That's America's ...