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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
... Australian Bureau of Statistics releases producer price index data for September quarter. In company news, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, Vision Group and Cardno hold annual general meetings. Boeing Commercial Airplanes issues its market outlook. The Queensland ...

Budget, what budget?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
... found one in four have never budgeted in their life and, even when they do, it's to blow the lot on a holiday. St. George Bank commissioned a study on the spending and saving habits of 18-29 year old Australians. While the finding that many Gen Yers ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
... 6.39 per cent, to $28.13, while Woolworths gained 14 cents to $29.55. The big four banks were strong. National Australia Bank added 22 cents, or 0.72 per cent, to $30.94, Westpac advanced 69 cents, or 2.6 per cent to $27.19, and Commonwealth Bank rose ...

State Street CEO and chairman retires

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
... Street's non-US revenues have grown to 35 per cent of total revenue. Building on the successful 2003 acquisition of Deutsche Bank's global securities services businesses, during 2007 Logue orchestrated the largest acquisition in State Street's history ...

What China wants China gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
... This brings China's average growth rate for the first nine months of 2009 to 7.7 per cent, prompting the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to raise its full-year economic growth projection from 7.0 per cent to 8.2 per cent. The ADB expects China to deliver ...

Wealthy women frustrated with finance firms: book

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
Financial services companies may want to review how they interact and work with women after research found they represent $12 trillion in consumer discretionary spending globally are disappointed with the way finance firms deal with them. A recently ...

Sucked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
... the ability and willingness to tighten monetary conditions when the time comes," which is "not now. " (US Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Janet Yellen). Bubbles only form when everyone is optimistic. Right now, not everyone is. Right ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
... to 4,846.2 points. NEW YORK - Wall Street shares fell on Wednesday in a roller-coaster session marked by a late slide in bank stocks after a mixed day for corporate earnings. The market reacted to news of record profits for banking giant Wells Fargo ...

25 bps to win Melbourne Cup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
... basis points to win and an outside chance of 50 bps beating it to the post. According to Bloomberg, the odds that the Reserve Bank of Australia will raise interest rates by 25 bps on Melbourne Cup Day is 100 per cent proof. And there is a one in five ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
The Australian share market was more than one per cent higher at noon, buoyed by rises in miners and the banks. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 67.3 points, or 1.4 per cent, at 4,860.1 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...