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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2006
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after a positive lead from Wall Street. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contact was up 11 points at 5,016 at 0726 AEST. Today, beer maker Foster's Group will announce ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
The market is expected to open lower today, following mixed overseas markets, as well as falls in precious metals and some base metals prices. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract had fallen 14 points to 4958 at 0758 ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2006
... May. HONG KONG - Hong Kong stocks rose 0.23 per cent, supported by strong gains in Japanese shares, with Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa climbing on speculation it would spin off its retail arm into a separately listed firm, a move which the ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2006
The Australian share market should open sharply weaker as US and European stocks were routed overnight on concerns of higher global interest rates. The Dow Jones fell almost two per cent while UK shares dropped nearly three per cent on inflation concerns ...

AGL-Alinta deal bodes well for infrastructure pricing

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2006
... outsourcing business, but they also own three power stations," he said. "At the moment groups such as this are valued as a conglomerate at just about the market average PE, or just above it, but in their case it's trading at 16 times the earnings." Manchee ...

Mum and dad investors want a slice of the private equity pie

... has become a more mainstream financing option for firms looking for seed capital, to expand or spin out of a larger conglomerate." Michelle Baltazar

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2005
... information on December retail activity. NEW YORK - US blue-chip stocks rose as a higher profit forecast from aerospace conglomerate Honeywell boosted sentiment, while investors' appetite for stocks like Exxon Mobil and Procter & Gamble drove the S&P ...

Aon first diversified group to get RSE

Aon Australia is the first Australian group to be granted an RSE licence from APRA's diversified institutions group, ahead of the June deadline next year. Aon's managing director in Australia, Stewart Fotheringham, said the licensing underscores their ...

ASX refuses to confirm talk it is lobbying for News Corp index

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2004
... United States. Index operator Standard & Poor's has indicated it might not be able to include Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate in Australia's benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index if it is also included in the US S&P 500 index. "We don't confirm or deny," an ...

Murdoch raises News Corp forecast, hints at higher dividend

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2004
... full-year forecast after a surge in DVD sales and strong results from newspaper and TV operations lifted the media conglomerate's third quarter profit 30%. Murdoch, News Corp's chairman, said an increased dividend for shareholders was under active consideration ...