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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... a record $US7.8 billion ($A12.29 billion) loss amid a deepening global recession, while a string of other companies with grim earnings outlooks also tumbled. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's benchmark Nikkei index fell 120.07 points to 7,873.98. HONG KONG ...

TTR strategies need more attention

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
... self-fund their retirement are "first rate", he said, so investors should be gearing up to take advantage of them. But due to the grim investment landscape, the tax effectiveness of superannuation investments and tax free pensions have been put aside. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
... TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei average fell 4.9 per cent to its lowest close in over a month on Thursday, battered by an increasingly grim take on the global economy and a record fall in Japanese machinery orders that dented investor confidence. The benchmark ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
... on Wednesday, as exporters such as Sony Corp rebounded after falls the day before but worry about earnings amid a wave of grim profit forecasts limited gains. The benchmark Nikkei edged up 24.54 points to 8,438.45. HONG KONG - The benchmark Hang Seng ...

Planners spared AMP job cuts

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... at this stage. This is good news for AMP planners who can breathe a sigh of relief as they prepare their businesses for a grim looking 2009. "Our outlook is unchanged. We don't anticipate any changes to our planner numbers or the way we service our planners. ...

Free money can be costly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  SUNDAY, 23 NOV 2008
... at bargains, putting further downward pressure on prices. The Japanese experience with deflation in the 1990s serves as a grim warning to the global economy and proved that even zero interest rates can be costly.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... 353.3, or 6.84 per cent, to 4,813.57 points. PARIS - The CAC 40 fell 230.86, or 6.38 per cent, to 3,387.25 points. TOKYO - The grim reality of the tough economic challenges ahead returned in full force to Asian stock markets on Thursday, dragging the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... Canada, was down $11.85, or 15.11 per cent, at $66.55. In the US overnight, stocks dived on growing global recession fears, grim company outlooks and falling oil prices. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 514.45 points, or 5.69, to 8,519.21. The broad ...

No more parachute payments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
The debate on chief executive pay heats up after the discovery that senior executives in many of the banks the government had to bail out were in line for fat parachute payments just as they were negotiating a rescue package for the company. Dexia's ...

Aussies shun local equities

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
Aussie investors are turning their backs on Australian shares and sporting a grim reaper stance towards the local economy, new research shows. Almost 40 per cent of Australian investors have been expecting the share market to perform 'somewhat worse' ...