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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
The Australian share market lost ground in morning trade, with major resources companies Rio Tinto and Fortescue Metals Group the leading lights among the major stocks. By 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 39.1 points, or 1.1 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... gold, helping local resource stocks. "We're playing a bit of catch up after the long weekend and the market should hold its ground for the rest of the day," Ms Chan said. The mining majors advanced. BHP Billiton added $1.58, or 5.76 per cent, to $29.03 ...

Obama: he's the man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage. What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them - that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
... 15 cents or 3.55 per cent to $4.37 and Santos firming 21 cents or 1.52 per cent to $14.01. But Woodside Petroleum lost ground, down 60 cents or 1.76 per cent at $33.45 after its US subsidiary suspended work on its OceanWay project citing changed energy ...

Self-fulfilling prophecy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
... economy lost 2.6 million jobs in 2008 and a slump in the ANZ job advertisement survey reported earlier in the week laid the ground for a bearish spin on Australia's December payroll numbers no matter what the stats reveal it seems. Not to mention headlines ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
... cent in November, seasonally adjusted, to 49,192, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday. Wesfarmers lost ground, down 61 cents or 3.49 per cent to $16.88, after the company said it expects first half 2008/09 net profit to be between $850 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2008
... 4,354.09 points. PARIS - The CAC 40 lost 129.51 points, or 4.03 per cent, to 3,087.89 points. TOKYO - Japanese stocks lost ground, weighed down by worries about the outlook for the global economy and the crisis engulfing US carmakers. The Nikkei-225 ...

Northern Trust granted Aussie bank licence

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
... between our clients and Northern Trust, had to be done through offshore locations, [but] we can now perform that here on the ground," said Paul Cutts, Northern Trust Australia managing director. Cutts said the firm had no intention to use the banking ...

ASIC adjusts redemption rules to help pensioners

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
Financial watchdog ASIC said it may offer exemptions to existing government rules on 'frozen' mortgage funds that will allow mortgage fund operators to release funds to unitholders based on 'hardship grounds'. This relief will apply on a case-by-case ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
... private client adviser Craig Walker said lower base metal prices had seen market heavyweights BHP Billiton and Rio lose ground today. "It's a pretty simple story really... Base metals were up substantially a couple of nights ago, but they were never ...