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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... news of the debt-ceiling deal, but then dropped sharply as investors were spooked by a disappointing report on US manufacturing and fears that the agreement might be defeated in Congress. Questions have swirled over whether the package would pass the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... (HIA) releases its new home sales report for June. The Australian Industry Group/Pricewaterhouse performance of manufacturing (PMI) index for July is due. US President Barack Obama is due to give a speech on negotiations to avert a US debt default at ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... TVs. Since it makes so many kinds of products, investors often see 3M's results as an indicator of how the whole US manufacturing industry is doing. About two stocks fell for every one that rose on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume was light at 3.7 ...

Net-net, it's still good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... already slowing - GDP eased in the second quarter and its PMI dropped below 50 in July indicating a contraction in manufacturing activity - and inflation would be coming down soon. How will these dramas end? Some say investors would be reaching out for ...

AMP embeds AXA management into new structure

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... billion merger with AXA. The new banking and wealth management products division, led by former director of product manufacturing Rob Caprioli, will manage all superannuation, retirement and investment products and platforms, including North. Another ...

North platform lands new head in AMP restructure

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... also manage superannuation, retirement and investment products for AMP Bank. Caprioli had been director, product manufacturing since joining AMP in December 2010 where he delivered financial services products within Australia. Prior to this, Caprioli ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
... in Washington over raising the country's borrowing limit. Troubling questions over Europe's financial health and manufacturing in the US weighed down stock prices for much of the day, overwhelming a very strong earnings report from Google Inc. Google ...

QE3 - yes, no, maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... be release tonight along with the latest update on consumer sentiment, industrial production and the Empire State Manufacturing Survey. Then we can resume QE3 scoring.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... of the sluggishness of the US economic recovery. The Institute for Supply Management said that its index of non-manufacturing activity was 53.3 in June, down from 54.6 in May. Analysts had forecast that the index would fall to 54.0. Any number above ...

Not in the mood for bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... 3.5% and the one-year lending at 6.56%. If financial markets worried about a hard landing when China's PMI showed manufacturing just teetering on the edge of the 50 expansion/contraction mark - it fell to 50.9 in June - they should be terrified now that ...