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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
... $US1.30, after it hit 12-month lows on Tuesday amid fears that Greece's debt crisis would spread to other struggling EU economies. When markets settled, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had fallen 59.94 points, or 0.55 per cent, to 10,866.83 points. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
... aid package if a larger country such as Spain or Portugal were to get in trouble. Traders are concerned that weakening economies in Europe could jeopardize the recovery in this country. The market's plunge wasn't a surprise to some analysts who have ...

HSBC funds now on IOOF platforms

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
... available online. The HSBC Asia Select Equity Fund provides investors with exposure to some of the world's fastest growing economies in Asia and aims to deliver strong relative performance on the basis of HSBC's proprietary research, long-term focus ...

Seek and thou shalt find

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
... relationship? Seek and thou shalt find. There's concern as to what will happen to the fledgling recovery in the developed economies once the trillions of stimuli are withdrawn. But aren't all these 'finds' a good thing? This tells me that investors are ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
... undermined confidence in Europe's shared currency, the euro, and raised the troubling possibility that other weak European economies such as Portugal may also need to be bailed out. Investors sent homebuilder stocks higher after the National Association ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
... upgrade to the International Monetary Fund's global growth outlook was welcome but harsh words for the lagging European economies only highlighted the headwinds the region faces in getting back on track. In London, the benchmark FTSE 100 index closed ...

Strong one, says yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2010
... rampaging all over Wall Street and almost all other equity markets. It simply didn't make sense when the US and global economies were so strong. Besides, the "conundrum" was also observed in most major economies. What did we have a few short years later? ...

Enviable problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... they'll accept other job offers, and if so, which one? Yes, the times they have changed - maybe not for the other advanced economies but they certainly have for Australia. Yesterday, the ABS reported that 19,600 jobs were created in March as a 30,100 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... rating because of its deteriorating public finances highlighted an issue which affects more than just smaller eurozone economies such as Greece or Spain. FRANKFURT - The DAX 30 closed up 36.8 points, or 0.6 per cent, at 6,156.85 points. PARIS - The CAC ...

Cbus Connect merger heralds investment changes

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2010
... vision for our industry." CONNECT chairman Mac Russell said both funds' members and employers will benefit from bigger economies of scale and a stronger market position. Atkin added the funds have had an ongoing dialogue for several years about merging ...