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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... focus as it struggles with a banking crisis while battling record unemployment, a huge public deficit and a recession, raising concerns of a financial collapse. WELLINGTON - The NZX 50 rose 6.94 points, or 0.2 per cent, to 3488.28.

Lifewise takes insurance to new social sphere

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
... Financial Services Council (FSC) to form Lifewise, a public initiative of the Australian life insurance industry aimed at raising awareness of the problem.

Scare me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2012
... July to 2 August 2011. And if you still remember, back then it was mainly due to the 'deal or no deal' speculation over raising the US debt ceiling and culminated in the USA losing its AAA. Then as in now, US eco and survey stats were beginning to disappoint ...

MMADX appoints new executive director

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... named former NAB heavyweight, Michael Go, as a new executive director where he will focus on finalising the firm's capital raising. Go joins Money Market and Debt eXchange (MMADX) from the National Australia Bank where he held the role as global chief ...

Bumps along the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... since October last year. This is an extra 3.1 million workers spending extra dollars on the economy, creating extra sales, raising company profits, increasing demand for extra workers, and so on, and so forth. It's half-empty. The decline in the jobless ...

Stay or stay away this May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012
... inflation. If that's the case Wayne, why not deliver an even bigger surplus by slashing fiscal spending even more and raising taxes even more, perhaps then we'll have borrowing costs at zero like Japan's and the US? Maybe then Australia's credit rating ...

Carter exits QIC

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
... performance to our clients, was instrumental in attracting many new clients and just last year led a record $1.72b capital-raising for the domestic real estate fund," said McTaggart. QIC GRE holds a significant portfolio of regional shopping centres ...

Market Wrap-Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
... Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde and Japan Finance Minister Jun Azumi who both said the IMF would achieve its goal of raising enough cash for a firewall against future debt crises. Tokyo fell 0.28 per cent, or 27.02 points, to 9,561.36, Seoul shed ...

In it to win it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012
... resources to fight the good fight. IMF chief Christine Lagarde expects the Fund to reach 'critical mass' this week in raising more than US$400 billion from contributing governments. Japan has already pledged US$60 billion. That's to take care of the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... recorded a trade surplus of $5.35 billion in March, as exports rose 8.9 per cent. However, imports rose just 5.3 per cent, raising concerns about the domestic economy. In February, China posted a huge deficit of $31.48 billion -- the largest in more ...