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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2007
... three month PM kerb close on the London Metal Exchange. NEW YORK - US stocks rose overnight as investors increased their interest in the equities market, with credit markets stabilising and takeover activity once again playing out. There were still hopes ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2007
... both finishing higher and the Dow Jones ending down, with suggestions the Federal Reserve could reduce its benchmark interest rate, further easing concerns surrounding credit markets. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 30.49 points, or 0.23 ...

Korea the next big thing

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2007
... for the Australian institutions to continue building the alternative asset class." He said Korea continued to garner interest from the Australian institutional investors, super funds and their consultants he had met while in the country. "Would there ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2007
... both finishing higher and the Dow Jones ending down, with suggestions the Federal Reserve could reduce its benchmark interest rate, further easing concerns surrounding credit markets. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 30.49 points, or 0.23 ...

APRA bans former Zurich CEO

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2007
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has disqualified another former Zurich chief executive officer, Malcolm Murray Jones, from directorial or senior management roles, six months after investigations concluded. Jones was a director ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2007
... Dow offered help by large manufacturing stocks like Caterpillar Inc, likely to benefit from a reduction in benchmark interest rates. Trade changed direction in the hour before the market closed. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 42.27 points, or ...

The big bounce

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2007
... Friday's gains. Speculation is now growing that the US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will likely cut the official interest rate, affecting consumers, by 25 basis points next month. Following the RBA's cash rate increase two weeks ago, according ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2007
... Dow offered help by large manufacturing stocks like Caterpillar Inc, likely to benefit from a reduction in benchmark interest rates. Trade changed direction in the hour before the market closed. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 42.27 points, or ...

Kelly switch shifts M&A landscape

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2007
... colleagues at CBA, raising the potential for this to be an obstacle). Despite oft repeated market rumours of Westpac's interest in Suncorp's Queensland based banking assets, the arrival of Kelly at Westpac is also likely to decrease the near term potential ...

CommSec adds South Africa to BRIC

CommSec has launched a new product with a twist, offering investors the option to invest in the emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) plus exposure to the commodities-driven of South Africa. "Brazil, Russia, India and China have ...