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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
Australian shares were down by 1.3 per cent at noon as weaker than expected building approval data released late Tuesday morning prompted shares to fall further from initial losses. At 1200 AEST on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 56.9 ...

Snowball launches advice centre of excellence

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
Snowball Financial Group has launched a Best Advice Centre of Excellence, a collection of some of the advice industry's leading minds to hash out ideas and new ways to improve the delivery of advice. The project is part of Snowball's Project Best Advice ...

ASIC commissioner new chief of FOS

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
ASIC commissioner, Shane Tregillis, was appointed as new chief of the Financial Ombudsman Service, replacing departing chief Colin Neave. Tregillis will move into the Melbourne-based role from August 26. Neave did not move to be reappointed into the ...

SMSFs stockpiling cash, weighted to banks

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
Self-managed super funds have been stockpiling cash in the three months to June reflecting a cautious attitude to the stockmarket among trustees, a new survey has said. Cash holdings for the 1600 SMSFs administered by self-managed super administration ...

Now for the denominator

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... US employment number to be released on Friday night and the stage will be set for another, 'will it, won't it' moment. Big Ben should be giving us the answer to this soon. Will he or will he not announce another QE? It was in August last year when he ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
The Australian share market is expected to decline following falls on Wall Street overnight on scepticism about the deal to resolve the US debt crisis. At 0717 AEST on the ASX 24 on Tuesday, the September share price index futures contract was down ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
Australian shares are soaring after the United States avoided a debt default with an eleventh hour agreement to cut its deficit. President Barack Obama said the deal will cut about $US1 trillion in spending over 10 years and avoid default, which would ...

Planners unprepared for second stage clients

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
Equity Trustees is preparing to acquire two niche aged care planning practices to target a new emerging class of clients, something it said the planning industry is not ready for. Equity Trustees (EQT) is in negotiations with planning practice, Paragon ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
Australian shares may decline slightly after US stocks fell on Friday as talks to reach an agreement over the US debt ceiling continued to feed market uncertainty. But mining stocks may gain after some metals, including gold, silver and copper, rose. ...

It's a deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
Deal! This single word was music to the ears of investors everywhere. After weeks of restless anxiety, it came to pass - the powers-that-are in Washington agreed to raise the nation's US$14,300,000,000,000 debt ceiling. True to script the negotiations ...