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Market wrap late PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
Australian shares have opened marginally stronger as a recovery in US retail sales gave a boost to cautious investor sentiment. At 1017 AEDT on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 22.9 points, or 0.51 per cent, at 4,506.3 points, while the ...

Jingling bells

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
"Just hear those sleigh bells jinglin', ring ting tinglin' too" - Sleigh Ride There's really not much to add to what I've written yesterday -- Xmas must really be coming in early this year. Just look at all those wonderful set of numbers released over ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
The Australian market looks set to open higher following a positive lead from Wall Street and ahead of the release of the Reserve Bank of Australia's October board meeting minutes. At 0824 AEDT on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract ...

Market Wrap - late AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
Australian shares have opened flat after better than expected Chinese trade figures balanced weak leads from Wall Street and Europe. At 1020 AEDT on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 1.1 points, or 0.02 per cent, at 4,487.7 points, while ...

Australia ranks third in Global Pensions

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
The 2012 Mercer Global Pension Index has shown that Australia has come in third place out of 18 countries, beating the likes of Switzerland, Canada and the UK. The index which covers over half of the world's population has found that Australia's retirement ...

BT Wrap first to hit tax statement deadline

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
BT Wrap has become the first major Australian platform to deliver all of its investors' Wrap Tax Statements for 2012. The product provider benefited from improvements to its administration system to deliver statements to more than 200,000 investors ...

Treats not threats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
Huh? Halloween already? It certainly felt that way last week, didn't it? It was the week when the spooks went out a-haunting. The Asian Development Bank, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were out like a three-headed monster, singing ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower after a mixed lead from the US where stocks gave up early gains on firm bank earnings and a rise in consumer confidence on Friday with worries about the new earnings season clouding optimism. At 0745 AEDT ...

Market wrap late AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
Australian stocks have opened flat after mixed leads from Wall Street and European markets. At 1021 AEDT on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 3.7 points, or 0.08 per cent, at 4,487.2 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index was 4.2 ...

We'll hunt down commission 'work around': FSA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
The UK financial services regulator has warned wealth groups to not try to get around the commissions ban with 'work around' fixes. Commissions and all payments from platforms to financial advisers will be banned in the UK wealth management market from ...