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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... September share price index contract was down 54 points at 4,392. It's a big day in economic data on Tuesday. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) releases financial aggregates data for July. The Australian Bureau of Statistics issues retail trade data ...

Abacus funds head exits

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
Tom Hardwick, the director of funds management at Abacus Property Group, has resigned to concentrate on his personal investments in childcare. According to an ASX statement from last week, Hardwick resigned and Abacus Property Group head of strategy ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... the top 20 that are not green." Markets took heart from comments by US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke of the central bank providing more support the American economy if necessary, Mr Heffernan said. "His comments have been totally consistent," ...

A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... further disinflation-and to promote the continuation of the economic recovery." There you go - the world's biggest central bank's portrait of the economic and financial world. But hey, isn't this what Big Ben's been telling the markets for a number of ...

Market Wrap - Midmorning

MARKET WRAP - MIDDAY  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
... Billiton was 37 cents lower at $37.02, and Rio Tinto backtracked 79 cents to $68.81. Among the major banks, National Australia Bank shed 29 cents to $22.72, Commonwealth Bank lost 45 cents to $48.53, Westpac eased 25 cents to $21.30 and ANZ retreated ...

No change in Concord strategies: Invesco

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
... formed in June 2000 by six principals following the sale of Lend Lease's financial services business to National Australia Bank. Principal employees fully own Concord from its inception until its integration with Invesco in August 2010. Concord manages ...

NGS Super considers Shariah-compliant option

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
NGS Super is looking to launch a Shariah-compliant investment option based on the feedback from the Islamic members of the fund. Chief executive Anthony Rodwell-Ball told the audience at yesterday's Rainmaker Marketing Symposium that the fund is working ...

Glum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
Glum has entered the building. Remember him? The teenie weenie Lilliputian in Gulliver's Travels who when faced with a predicament - any predicament - exclaims, "We'll never make it! We're doomed!" So it is with Wall Street and its view of the US economy ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
The Australian market has received mixed leads from offshore trading overnight. Wall Street stock indices ended lower, as did precious metals, but base metals and oil were up. At 0745 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
The Australian stock market was in positive territory at noon on Thursday, with gains in the banking sector balancing losses in the mining sector. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 13.6 points, or 0.31 per cent, at 4,333.7, while the ...