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Baird to launch Sydney not-for-profit "fintech hub"

ALEX GAMBOTTO-BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
... partner following a Pepper Property Advisory tender process. Foundation corporate partners for the project are Allens, Amazon, American Express, AMP, ANZ, Capital Markets CRC, CIFR, FINSIA, Finzsoft, HSBC, IAG, Intel, KPMG, Macquarie Group, Oracle, Suncorp ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... array of connected gadgets in people's lives. Big online services also propelled the indices. Alibaba added 3.35 percent, Amazon 2.8 percent and Google 2.3 percent. Bond prices fell. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury rose to 1.85 percent from 1.81 ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... have capped a strong week on a high note, with good earnings from Microsoft and others overshadowing a poor report from Amazon. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 127.51 points (0.76 per cent) to close Friday at 16,805.41. The broad-based S&P 500 ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... because the progress of electric cars has been slow. Tesla tumbled 9.1 per cent. Other prominent tech stocks, including Amazon (-2.2 per cent), Facebook (-3.7 per cent) and Netflix (-4.0 per cent) also fell. Analysts said some investors were selling ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2014
... while the broad-based S&P 500 dropped 0.48 per cent on Friday night, following surprisingly weak earnings reports from Amazon and Visa, in particular. "Investors are waiting to take cues from the local profit reporting season," Mr Spooner said. "Forecast ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2014
... 2.6 points, or 0.05 per cent, to 5,574.2 points. NEW YORK - US stocks have tumbled on disappointing earnings reports from Amazon and some other companies in a move that some analysts also attributed to profit taking. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ...

Prepare for the 'financial Amazon': Joye

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2014
Online financial supermarkets akin to Amazon are the future of financial services distribution, according to YBR Funds Management's Christopher Joye. Speaking at the Financial Standard MAX forum in Sydney yesterday, Joye said there was a surprisingly ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... the S&P 500 lost 1.3 per cent. Enjoying the rebound on Tuesday were Facebook, up 2.2 per cent, Tesla, up 3.8 per cent, Amazon, up 2.9 per cent and Google, up 3.1 per cent. But biotechnology stocks, which have experienced some of the heaviest selling ...

Time to go away?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
... Heritage Capital Management David Moenning cited examples of the kind of dumping certain "buzzed" stocks have suffered: "...Amazon.com (AMZN) is down -20.6 percent from its January high." "Yelp (YELP) has crashed -32.9 percent in just over a month". ...

Fund manager criticises "rip-off" fees

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014
... despite the electronic revolution and the huge falls in operating costs," he said. "For heaven's sake, it's no different than Amazon selling books versus Dymocks. Innovation happens and price disruption occurs. We need to move on." DGI runs a single ...