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Praemium goes public with $18m capital raising

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2006
... conducted more than 50 presentations to leading UK financial services organisations, a number of which have expressed interest in using either PAS or SMA once available in the UK," Naoumidis said.

Daily economic update

... dependent on foreign funding. The risk here is that if foreign money stops flowing into the economy. This will lead to higher interest rates and a depreciation of the US dollar. China is now the second largest holder of US debt. This is perhaps the reason ...

Grange scores new equities director and researcher

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2006
... Smith Barney/Citibank, has been given a brief to expand the existing sales team. Michael Clout, divisional director fixed interest and equities at Grange, said the appointment will accelerate the implementation of Grange's equities strategy. "We have ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2006
... planes. However, gains in the broad market were limited as investors remain concerned that high energy prices and benchmark interest rates near five per cent will hurt economic growth. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 40.34 points at 11,129.97. ...

US pension fund wealth bigger than individual wealth

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2006
... some of the practices that make those private investors and companies profit. And that is a pretty profound conflict of interest," Greider explained. Being too passive had allowed some of the recent catastrophic corporate scandals to happen, according ...

Surging CFD volumes pressuring online brokers

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2006
... retail online trading system even though our source within the bank thought this seemed rather unlikely. Despite this interest in CFDs, CommSec, the market leader in online broking in Australia, has so far said it has no plans to introduce CFDs. IWL ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2006
... shares in Sony and other recent gainers declining after stronger-than-expected US jobs data fuelled concerns about further interest rate rises in the world's largest economy. The Nikkei finished down 106.79 points at 17,456.58. HONG KONG - Stocks closed ...

Equities lead bull run in super savings: SelectingSuper

... 21.2 per cent in the year ended January but a lower 20.5 per cent in the year ended February. Contrast that to the fixed interest index which improved by 0.6 per cent, from 4.2 per cent to 4.8 per cent over the comparable period. Overall, the latest ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2006
... investors fretted that a stronger-than-expected March job growth report will give the Federal Reserve more ammunition to push interest rates higher, overshadowing hopes for robust corporate profits. A drop in oil prices also hurt shares of major oil ...

Daily economic update

It appears that the continued stability of domestic interest rates is impacting favourably on the housing market. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) latest update on housing finance shows the total value of dwelling finance commitments - excluding ...