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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2007
... Perth. Australian stocks ended yesterday on a low note, after weaker overseas markets and fears of higher interest rates affected the local bourse. The S&P/ASX200 index ended down 26 points at 6311.1, while the all ordinaries was 29.2 points lower at ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2007
... Bank of England's interest rate verdict on Thursday. The FTSE 100 ended 110.1 points lower at 6,522.7, but was barely affected by the European Central Bank's widely-expected move to lift euro-zone rates to 4 per cent during the session. FRANKFURT - The ...

ASIC watching reverse mortgage materials

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2007
... "There are no repayments", "&no loan repayments ever" and "No need to make repayments!!" and "Centrelink payments aren't affected". In each of the five cases the reverse mortgage provider took action to rectify the misleading material upon ASIC's request. ...

New blood to shake up CFS Aussie equities

... weaken the attractiveness of the GDP Plus capability," said S&P fund analyst Jane Wu. Admittedly the performance of the affected funds have languished in the past twelve months. For example, the CFS Australian Share Fund gained 15.31 per cent in the ...

Investors will be compensated for dud advice: Pearce

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2007
... were unable to raise sufficient funds to payout compensation claims. "The regulation will reduce the possibility that affected licensees will not have adequate cover in place to compensate retail clients in the event of a successful claim," said Pearce. ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2007
... that's followed on overnight," Mr Anderson said. "Just a little concern about China's imports slowing down, so that has affected the big miners particularly, BHP and Rio. "It is really that sector that is dragging the sector lower. "People are taking ...

Pick your stocks when they're green: SAM

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2007
... according to visiting T. Rowe Price group vice president, Darrell Riley. Questioned on how much sustainability issues affected T. Rowe Price's stock selection process, he simply raised a hand shaped in a circle and said "Zero". "We're just very immature ...

Members covered for fraud but not bad investments

... fail, then the member [of an accumulation fund] will lose out." The $1.47 million financial grant will be credited to the affected members' accounts, including those who have retired, within the next six weeks. Since the fraud was uncovered in 2003 ...

Planning business gives teachers bad advice

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
... returns of switching and contained misleading performance comparisons. The Court ordered First Capital to inform all affected clients and correct the advice they were given. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) also accepted an ...

Market wrap - midday

... and the Nasdaq Composite Index was down 32.12 points at 2,525.09. Commodity prices also fell slightly overnight, which affected the miners, Mr Chatterton said. "Commodity prices eased back a little bit, and that's probably taken a little bit of wind ...