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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
The Australian share market was stronger at noon, led by the financial and energy sectors, as a wave of by-orders pushed stocks up from a flat open. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 46.1 points, or 0.99 per cent, at 4,694.3, while ...

G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... continue. The imminent QE2 announcement would be large enough to shock and awe the financial markets that the US central bank is determined to raise inflation expectations - prevent deflation - in the economy and strengthened the recovery. Anything less ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... price index futures contract was four points lower at 4,645 points. In economics news on Monday, the governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Glenn Stevens, addresses the Australian Industry Group's Annual Forum. The Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

ASIC strikes back in Opus dispute

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... crisis took hold, but says its breach was resolved with the successful renegotiation of debt facilities with the Commonwealth Bank in May. But now ASIC is appealing that ruling based on the argument that the court "erred in concluding that a deferred ...

Lower tax rate opens local property to foreign investors

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
CB Richard Ellis (CBRE ) and Echo Capital are targeting foreign investors with new property products in Australia after the May budget revised the national withholding tax rate to a more favourable 7.5 per cent. The new strategic alliance, MITSA (Managed ...

Mixed results for US industry giants

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
Despite strong results on face value, US investors were largely unimpressed with the third quarter earnings reported by some of the industry's leading lights overnight. BlackRock, the world's largest fund manager, reported higher than expected profits ...

CFS GAM makes a case for raising govt debt

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
A leading strategist at one of Australia's largest investment managers argues the case for more government debt in Australia, and says that super funds could play a key role in absorbing higher bond issuance. Stephen Halmarick, head of investment research ...

Money, money, money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... futures contract was 74 points lower at 4,595, with 21,122 contracts traded. Most market sectors fell, with major resources and bank stocks at least one per cent lower. Bell Potter Securities' senior client adviser Stuart Smith attributed the broad-based ...

Planners urged to address ethics

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... reach the ranks of pharmacists (85 per cent), doctors (79 per cent) and dentists (68 per cent). They also rank lower than bank managers (33 per cent) and lawyers (32 per cent). "We know from our own Back to Basics consumer research that those who have ...