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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open higher after US stocks ended positively on a stronger-than-expected earnings result from investment and commercial bank JP Morgan Chase and falling energy prices. At 0653 AEST on the Sydney Futures exchange ...

Westpac restructures fin services and tech

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
Westpac is combining the front-end of its Business Financial Services and Consumer Financial Services divisions and is replacing its existing Business Technology Solutions and Services (BTSS) arm with two new business units. The move to restructure ...

Inflation outlook dim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
Market Movers Overnight Soothing words from RBA Governor Glenn Stevens at the Anika Foundation Luncheon yesterday and declines in commodity prices overnight sent the Australian dollar down from a 25-year high of US$0.9784 to US$97.50. In his speech ...

Perpetual capital protected gains $130m

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
ASX listed Perpetual Limited's capital protected structured products has attracted more than $130 million from retail investors. Perpetual's general manager structured products, Russel Chesler, said despite difficult market conditions and increasing ...

Social banking on the rise

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
Social banking platforms will capture 10 per cent of the worldwide retail lending and financial planning market in two years time, according to Gartner. The term, social banking includes trends such as green practices, social entrepreneurship and peer ...

Fed Gloom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
Market Movers Overnight (16 July) Fed Gloom US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony before the US Congress last night catapulted the Australian dollar to a 25-year high in overnight trading. The Australian dollar broke above the US$0.9800 ...

SERF selects JANA as asset consultant

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
Stevedoring Employees Retirement Fund (SERF) appointed JANA Investment Advisers as its asset consultant ahead of its proposed merger with the Seafarers Retirement Fund (SRF). Previously, SERF employed FuturePlus as its asset consultant and then employed ...

KiwiSaver to drive fin literacy

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
Gen X and Y Kiwis will be much more financially savvy than their predecessors because of the KiwiSaver scheme, predicts BT Funds Management. The New Zealand arm of BT Funds Management claims that in less than 20 years, an increasing number of young ...

This Week's Market Movers (14-18 July 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
Macroeconomic indicators set for release this week are not expected to deviate from the ongoing global theme of slowing growth and higher inflation. Australia Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Glenn Stevens address on the "Challenges for Economic ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher today after US equities gained overnight on reports Dow Chemical will takeover a rival firm and a better-than-expected sales report from retail titan Wal-Mart. Gains in the gold and oil price overnight ...