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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... The Australian share market closed higher on Tuesday, with financial stocks gaining ground following the central bank's interest rate cut. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index ended up 11.3 points, or 0.32 per cent, at 3,508.7 on Tuesday while the broader ...

More bombshells before the recovery

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... work guaranteeing government spend regardless of the economic climate. This expected government investments alongside interest rates at 40-year lows, weaker dollar and home ownership incentives all combine to make sure the country avoids a deep and protracted ...

Asgard adds fixed term deposits

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... its existing FTD suite. This tranche provides investors with the option of three, six and 12 month terms with either interest payment at maturity or monthly. However, only the three month term only pays interest on maturity. Wayne Wilson, head of Asgard ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... economic news on Monday, the Reserve Bank of Australia holds its first monthly board meeting for 2009 and is expected to cut interest rates by 100 basis points, taking the cash rate to 3.25 per cent. The Australian Bureau of Statistics international ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... open lower after a mostly weaker lead from Wall Street before turning its attention to the Reserve Bank of Australia's interest rate decision on Tuesday. At 0702 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was 21 points lower at ...

FPA heads to eye of Storm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
The key team behind the Financial Planning Association (FPA) is travelling to Townsville, Queensland to speak to those directly affected by Storm Financial's advice and the firm's subsequent collapse. Speaking at a press conference on Friday, Jo-Anne ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... is expected to open lower, after the falls in US equities, before attention turns to the Reserve Bank of Australia's interest rate decision. At 0720 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was 64 points lower at 3,429. In economic ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... engineering services provider Coffey International says it expects its best ever half year trading result, with earnings before interest and tax for the first half of fiscal 2009 expected to be between $29 million and $31 million. Its shares had surged ...

Sherry's to-do list for 2009

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... Services Licence and report to ASIC annually on the integrity of their ratings processes. This includes conflicts of interest management. Senator Sherry will be convening several roundtables next month on CRAs.

Capping fees is not the answer

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
Senator Nick Sherry may be very vocal about the need to slash superannuation fees from an average 1.25 per cent to below one per cent but he said legislating a fees cap is out of the question. "I'm not an advocate of fee caps. I don't think that's appropriate ...