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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
... 4,652.6. NEW YORK - The stock market hovered near the flat mark Wednesday as concerns about mounting debt levels around the world ate into gains in shares of energy and materials companies. The back-and-forth trading came as investors grew cautious about ...

D'Aloisio nominated Joint Forum chair

COMPANY RELEASES  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
... become the pre-eminent global economic decision making body," he said. This announcement comes after the 2009 World Economic Forum Financial Development Report ranked the best for financial market access and third, behind the US and UK, for non-bank ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
... the market shrug off an escalating trade dispute between the United States and China. Market action came as China filed a World Trade Organisation complaint over what it alleged were unfair tariffs imposed by Washington on Chinese tyre imports. Analysts ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
... Investors are placing big bets that the ability of companies to squeeze out surprise profits means the longest recession since World War II is finally easing its grip. But even as earnings and some economic reports suggest the economy is strengthening ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
... chief executive Michael Wilkins will address an American Chamber of Commerce in Australia function. The Coal Seam Methane World Australia 2009 conference begins in Brisbane, while the 2009 Sugar conference is held in Townsville. On Monday, The Australian ...

ASF appoints chair

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... time to address market dislocation," he said. "Securitisation markets have a critical role to play in Australia's and the world's economic recovery. However, we will not see a return to healthy credit flows and business investment until we see investor ...

2009: The lost year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
... (trillions of dollars in the case of the US) question of whether the aggressive interest rate cuts by central banks around the world and the fiscal stimuli by national governments would eventually succeed in reviving confidence and put the global economy ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open stronger today as the majority of world markets continued to make gains on the back of government action to stimulate economic activity. At 0803 AEDT, the December Share Price Index futures contract on ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
... news, Westfield reports third quarter results. Optus reports second quarter and half year results. The Committee for Economic Development of Australia hosts a half-day forum on "Lessons from the Gas Crisis" in Western Australia. Yesterday, the Australian ...

I'll have what she's having

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
... aches will come as the recession takes hold. Pain for the business sector is pain for the ordinary taxpayer. And in this world of global interdependence, pain in one country is pain in another. Who would think that the collapse of one sector of the US ...