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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... lower at 3800. There are no local economic data due on Tuesday. In companies news, Fortescue Metals Group Ltd holds a general meeting to approve an incentive options scheme and a share issue to Bocimar International NV. Rio Tinto Ltd chief scientist ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
... Minerals Ltd publishes its March quarter production report. Babcock & Brown Wind Partners Group holds an extraordinary general meeting to vote on a name change. Cockatoo Ridge Wine Ltd, Mantra Resources Ltd, Southern Cross Electrical, Sundance Resources ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
... is expected to open higher after US stocks gained on better-than-expected earnings reports from Citigroup and General Electric. Gold miners may decline after the precious metal fell on Friday. At 0733 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... 3,190.4. NEW YORK - Wall Street has extended its rally into a third day as investors took in stride a cut in General Electric Co's credit rating. Standard & Poor's lowered GE's top rating one notch because of problems at the conglomerate's lending arm ...

I have been dead wrong: Buffett

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... year, we made purchases totaling $14.5 billion in fixed-income securities issued by Wrigley, Goldman Sachs and General Electric. We very much like these commitments, which carry high current yields that, in themselves, make the investments more than ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... cent, to 3296.9. NEW YORK - Wall Street ended another unforgiving month with a steep loss as Citigroup Inc and General Electric Co both unsettled investors. Citigroup plans to turn over a big piece of itself to the government, a move that fanned worries ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
... broader All Ordinaries index was 145.6 points, or 4.02 per cent, lower at 3,473.4. NEW YORK - US stocks rose after General Electric Co announced plans to maintain its dividend and the Federal Reserve extended terms of three emergency loan programs. In ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... per cent, to $35.88. Takeover target Rio Tinto announced it had formed separate alliances with Atlas Copco and General Electric to develop autonomous drilling and energy efficient mining solutions.

Planners miss sustainable mark: Fahy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
... confident this trend will reverse, after publicity surrounding the federal government's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and a general push by financial institutions to 'go green'. "It will come to a stage where market forces are going to be so great that ...

Sparks fly at APRA statistics forum

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2008
... reacted to heavy criticism that they are not properly reporting investment returns. Charles Littrell, APRA's executive general manager of policy, research and statistics said superannuation is a $1.1 trillion industry and it plays a central economic ...