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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... opened marginally higher, buoyed by gains from the finance sector and as investors look forward to a rate cut from the Reserve Bank of Australia. At 1018 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 29.7 points, or 0.85 per cent, at 3,527.1, while the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was seven points higher at 3,467. In economic news on Monday, the Reserve Bank of Australia holds its first monthly board meeting for 2009 and is expected to cut interest rates by 100 basis points ...

Groundhog Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
Today, America and Canada held their annual Groundhog Day festivities to see whether spring would come early or winter will stretch six weeks more. Groundhog Day is rooted in ancient European folklore and purports that if a groundhog emerges from its ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... market is expected to open lower after a mostly weaker lead from Wall Street before turning its attention to the Reserve Bank of Australia's interest rate decision on Tuesday. At 0702 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was ...

Property re-pricing to come in waves

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
Super funds with high stakes in global property should brace for more pain in the asset class this year although the re-pricing is predicted to come in stages and not necessarily in the order you would expect them to, according to a new survey. Global ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... Australian stock market is expected to open lower, after the falls in US equities, before attention turns to the Reserve Bank of Australia's interest rate decision. At 0720 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was 64 points ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... to $39.18 at 1203 AEDT while rival BHP Billiton had shed 65 cents, or 2.12 per cent, to $30.00. At 1205 AEDT, Commonwealth Bank had shed 81 cents, or 3.01 per cent, to $26.09, National Australia Bank had retreated 23 cents, or 1.23 per cent, to $18.45 ...

Worst of the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... outlook relative to its G7 peers -- in particular the US - it does not take much of a stretch to presume that very soon the Bank of England's benchmark interest rate will go the way of the US and Japan. That is, the target rate will reach zero. Gilts ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was 96 points lower at 3,420. In economic news on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases financial aggregates data for December. In company news, retailer Harvey Norman will issue second quarter ...

Polaris buys SEEC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
Polaris Software has bought insurance software developer, SEEC in a move that will allow the firm to provide more products and services to the local wealth management industry. According to a Polaris statement, the deal will form one of the world's ...