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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
... Friday, with about 7,000 passengers expected to have their travel plans disrupted. Its shares fell half a cent to $1.56, after Prime Minister Julia Gillard warned the government had powers under the Fair Work Act to intervene in the dispute if it began ...

Tax forum tackles wealth management issues

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
... wealth management industry as Government heads and industry leaders gathered at the 2011 Tax Forum. Treasurer and Deputy Prime Minister, Wayne Swan, addressed the forum to discuss the Government's plans to increase the tax-free threshold to at least ...

Prime Super secures Mexican gas acquisition

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2011
Prime Super has landed part of a 40.1% acquisition in a Mexican gas project through its asset consultant, Access Capital Advisers, the second such investment from the super fund. Prime Super has an investment in Chile in gas distribution, which will ...

Some hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
... month. And then what? At this point, I'm not ashamed to admit that I haven't got a clue. But I tend to agree with former UK prime minister and former finance minister Gordon Brown that, "a far larger rescue fund -- two, perhaps three trillion euros -- ...

Strong culture drives T. Rowe Price

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
... their investors from the pain of the tech bust in the early 2000s and the greed that pervaded Wall Street before the sub-prime crisis. For example, Stromberg recalls that their debt analyst held a contrarian view about the quality of CDOs and sub-prime ...

Be glad for A$ weakness

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2011
... "Finance Minister of the Year" sits in Canberra. The A-dollar has fallen below parity with the US dollar. Australian deputy prime minister and federal treasurer Wayne Swan had been awarded the top gong by finance magazine Euromoney. In its press release ...

Legal threats loom over poor SMSF advice

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
... call themselves 'SMSF specialists' are ill-equipped to adequately advise on running a self-managed super fund - making them prime targets for litigation and causing reputational damage to the SMSF sector. As reported this week on Financial Standard ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says keeping politicians out of an inquiry into the media is the right thing to do. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has accused NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell and federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott of conspiring with ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
... Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced confidence on Wednesday that Greece would remain in the eurozone, after speaking to Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou via teleconference. Barroso also boosted hopes for European unity after announcing that he would ...

Obama punts on US$300bn jobs package

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... annual budget. Adjusted for relative population size, president Obama's US$300 billion jobs package would be equivalent to prime minister Julia Gillard announcing a program worth $20 billion. That's half the value of the entire NBN, half the value of ...