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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street closed the week up two per cent and amid optimism on the Italian debt front. At 0700 AEDT on Monday, the December share price index futures contract was up 44 points at 4,353. In economic ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011
The Australian stock market at noon on Friday had eased back to be almost flat as investors waited to see how the European debt crisis would unfold. At 1200 AEDT on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up eight points, or 0.19 per cent, at 4,252.1 ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street showed good gains overnight. At 0830 AEDT on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was up 22 points at 4286. No major economics is expected on Friday. In equities ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
SYDNEY, Nov 10 AAP - The Australian share market is set to open sharply lower on Thursday as world markets plunge due to delays in Europe's moves to stem its debt crisis. At 0714 AEDT on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
The Australian share market is set to open higher after Wall Street rose on news Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi would resign once a new budget was passed. At 0829 AEDT on Wednesday, the December share price index futures contract was up 56 ...

Buy the headline, sell the headline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
We've had the "risk on risk off" trade, we've had the "hope" trade and now we have the "headline" trade. And this you and I can plainly see on the intra-day ticks of last night's trading activity. Major equity markets in Asia and most of Europe -- Italy ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
The Australian stock market was lower at noon, extending declines from the open amid weakness among finance and energy stocks. At 1206 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 17 points, or 0.4 per cent, at 4,264.1, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
The Australian share market was set to notch up its biggest one-day rise in four weeks at noon amid hopes that a looming confidence vote in Greece will start the country's economic recovery. Global markets also rallied on news of an interest cut by ...

Advisers distracted by industry funds: RiskStore

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
Advisers have focused too much on industry funds and not enough on their own value proposition said the insurance professional development service, The Risk Store, in its latest newsletter. "Criticism of the industry funds' advertising tactics is possibly ...

Congressmen agitate for US transaction tax

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
Two US Congressional Democrats have announced they will again present legislation to introduce a US transaction tax modelled on the European transaction tax that is already set to take effect from 2014. Senator Tom Harkin and Congressman Peter DeFazio ...