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New switching device cuts latency

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
Trading times are on the brink of becoming even quicker with today's launch of the world's fastest switching device with a latency of 130 nanoseconds. "There was a time not that long ago when nobody cared about network devices and they were viewed as ...

netwealth unbundles super

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
netwealth has become the latest provider to unbundle its super offer with the launch of a next generation product to tailor investment and insurance requirements to the desired fee level. Matt Heine, executive director at netwealth investments said ...

Russell rethinks indices on expected bank windfall

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... semi-annual reconstitution has been driven by attractive valuations and expected income from the banks. "With banks looking to strip excess Tier 1 cash reserves from their balance sheets, the most likely outcome will be a number of share buybacks, which ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
Miners and energy stocks have added around one per cent to Australian shares after a successful French debt auction and good production results boosted risk appetite. Shares extended early gains driven by a strong sale of French treasury bills overnight ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
Australian shares have opened lower after a downgrade of nine of the European bloc countries' credit ratings sparked a fresh wave of risk aversion ahead of more Chinese data this week. Standard & Poor's (S&P) on Friday stripped France and Austria of ...

Waiting and hoping

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
Change is the only constant. Many of you gentle readers would have noticed the change in my stance these past few weeks - not overnight as reader Paul accuse - over the state of the global economy and financial markets. Let me explain why am not in ...

Other play factors

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
What's the final deal going to be? Will they, won't they? Sorry Virginia, not talking about the grand theatrics that is the US debt ceiling negotiations this time. Today, I refer these questions to our very own Reserve Bank of the Advance Australia ...

Fundamental indexing isn't

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... using company metrics that overweight on smaller companies and this makes it a de facto active strategy. "If you really strip it down they're really taking a tilt towards small companies," he said. "They're active strategies. Anything that is not the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
... the March quarter to $10.447 billion, driven by a big drop in exports. Economists say the widening of the trade gap will strip 2.4 percentage points from economic growth for the quarter, the biggest single-quarter hit to growth from trade in the 52-year ...

GDP down no reason to frown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
It's all over the news, the Statistician will soon confirm that the Australian economy stumbled in the first quarter of 2011. All eyes would be glued to monitors everywhere when the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) report on the National Accounts ...