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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2008
... 5666.1, while the All Ordinaries put on 46 points or 0.81 per cent to 5745.8. NEW YORK - US stocks jumped on Tuesday after IBM said it would buy back $15 billion of its shares, boosting the computer hardware sector, while energy companies' shares climbed ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
... Street overnight, the Dow Jones industrial average had risen 171.85 points to 12,778.15 after a strong profit result from IBM eased concerns over the global economy. Locally, the big miners were stronger. BHP had put on 63 cents to $38.87 at 1219 AEDT ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
... oil and gas explorer Exoma Energy Ltd at 1300 AEDT. NEW YORK - US stocks rebounded on Monday from last week's losses after IBM reported higher-than-expected preliminary quarterly earnings, spurring a broad rally in technology shares. The Dow Jones industrial ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2007
... Business Machines Corp, the world's largest technology services company, pushed the Dow industrials into record territory. IBM, also known as Big Blue, rose 4.3 per cent after the company posted a jump in quarterly profit and raised its 2007 earnings ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2007
... after a bid for the company was rejected. James Packer's Ellerston GEMS Fund today makes its share market debut. In Adelaide, IBM Australia & New Zealand chief executive Glen Boreham speaks at Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce function. Australian ...

Innovation index ranks finance and insurance second

... as the second most innovative industry behind to the wholesale trade sector. The index was the outcome of a joint study by IBM Australia and the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, Melbourne University, which looked at the level ...

US pension funds no longer the big boys

... the report said. For example, in 2000, 15 out of the top 20 funds were US-based including General Motors, General Electric, IBM, Lucent Technologies and Boeing. By 2005, only General Motors remains in the rankings but has since slipped from number 7 ...

Asia Pac fin services IT spend reach $2.3 trillion

... an investment in IT infrastructure and hence more servers," said Uko Tian, principal analyst at Gartner. The big winner is IBM, which took the lion's share of 42 per cent of server revenues in the region. Hewlett-Packard was number two with 22 per cent ...

Oracle predicts more IT collaboration

... compete less with their peers, according to Oracle Australia's chief, Stephen Jack, after the group signed a landmark deal with IBM and i-flex. Jack said that there's been a paradigm shift in how IT providers traditionally do their business. "What our ...

Russell and IBM enter strategic relationship for fund admin

Russell Investment Group has teamed up with IBM in a seven-year $140m Business Transformation Outsourcing agreement. The agreement means IBM will take over the operation of Russell's Member Administration Service Centre in Australia, which is essentially ...