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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
... data from China, Europe and the US. Buying sentiment was also helped by much welcomed earnings results, while investor confidence helped the dollar push higher. Tokyo on Friday surged 3.29 per cent, or 460.39 points, to 14,466.16 as the yen slipped ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... expected. In Australia, the market finished last week higher after recording its second straight day of gains. Investor confidence was boosted by intentions to stimulate economic growth in Europe, sending shares about one per cent higher on Friday. The ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
... has opened significantly higher as positive manufacturing data out of the United States and Europe improved investor confidence. The market is more than 1.5 per cent higher, almost regaining all of Monday's losses in the first half hour of trade. Wall ...

Platforms surpass pre-GFC levels

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... (FUA) records in the March quarter, after plunging during the global financial crisis (GFC). An uptick in investor confidence and an increase in adviser productivity could be behind the growth of the platform market, BT Financial head of Platforms Kelly ...

Australian stocks weaker at close

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... deterioration in confidence had continued due to volatility in Japan and ongoing quantitative easing in the US. "Investor confidence has been rattled," Mr Shamu said. "There's been more blanket selling. There's been nothing that's really sticking out ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2013
... commodity swings, acts of terrorism and unravelling geopolitical situations in North Korea and Israel to undermine investor confidence." Comments from Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann that Europe's recovery could well take a decade, also hit sentiment ...

ASIC speeds up misconduct probe

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
... these, 27 were referred to the enforcement team - a rate of just over one a week. "ASIC continues to strengthen investor confidence in the integrity of our markets, as we refine our surveillance of Australia's financial markets," said ASIC deputy chairman ...

Perpetual shares comeback

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... Management, told Financial Standard. And while the changes made at the business have no doubt contributed to investor confidence, Perpetual's value - like all listed companies in the wealth management sector - is linked in to investment markets, which ...

Confident Instos return to global equities

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
The State Street Investor Confidence Index has risen for the second consecutive month. Up 5.4 points from December's revised reading of 81.4 to reach 86.8, State Street Global Markets, the investment research arm of the financial services giant, said ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
... up 0.73 (0.02 per cent) at 3,135.44. LONDON - European share prices slid for the most part, despite soaring investor confidence in eurozone powerhouse Germany, with Frankfurt stocks wobbling on rumours that focused on the country's venerable central ...