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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
The Australian share market has opened flat despite a lift in overseas markets overnight. Early trading was marked by a massive 30 per cent drop in the shares of troubled surfwear retailer Billabong. Billabong said after the market had closed on Tuesday ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
... while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index added 15.61 (0.48 per cent) to 3,237.86. Technology shares drove the gains: Microsoft (+3.6 per cent), Intel (+3.1 per cent), Cisco (+1.9 per cent) and Oracle (+2.1 per cent). A 2.1 per cent rise by Dow member ...

Aussie billionaires ranked in Forbes richlist

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
Mining magnate Gina Rinehart is, once again, the Australian furthest up the annual Forbes list of wealthiest billionaires, coming in at number 36. Forbes estimated her wealth at $17 billion and suggested that lower iron ore prices may have knocked a ...

ME Bank appoints new directors

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
ME Bank shareholders have appointed Christine Christian and Justin Milne to the ME Bank Board, at the bank's Annual General Meeting in Melbourne on 1 November. Christine Christian is well versed in credit risk management and has served in senior executive ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower after European equities fell on Friday, hit by a lack of rapid progress towards full EU banking union at a key summit and Wall Street's Nasdaq was pulled down more than two per cent by a tech stock rout ...

Towers Watson expands Microsoft agreement

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
Global professional services company Towers Watson has broadened the terms of its agreement with Microsoft to adapt some software applications, develop new processes for risk-based modelling applications and increase use of cloud computing. Mark Beardall ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
The Australian market looks set to open flat following a non-descript finish on Wall Street overnight and European bourses fell after Germany and the European Central Bank dampened hopes for powerful action to fix the eurozone debt crisis. At 0759 AEST ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
The Australian market looks set to open more than three quarters of a per cent lower after falls on the US and European markets overnight. At 0840 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was down 34 points, or 0.83 per cent, at ...

Asgard launches new website for advisers

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
Asgard launched a new website today, designed to ease advisers' administrative end of financial year (EFOY) stresses and strains. The website will assist advisers with end of financial year processing and reporting, and offers an interactive calendar ...

It's all in the spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012
Pausing for a jump or poised for a dive? At this point, the subject is very much subject to market interpretation. Wall Street's behaviour - and the rest of 'em major equity markets - over the past few days suggests that it's a 50/50 proposition. Said ...