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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open little changed following a mixed lead from US stocks. Gold miners are likely to gain after the price of the precious metal increased. At 0747 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures ...

Sellers beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
Wall Street retreated last night apparently shocked at reports of an unexpected fall in US retail sales. The US Commerce Department reported that retail sales fell 1.1 per cent in March with sales ex-autos declining 0.9 per cent. Expectations were for ...

Go for gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
The US Federal Reserve's announcement that it is releasing freshly minted greenbacks worth US$1.25 trillion to rescue the convulsing economy threatens the return of high inflation when the current global financial crisis is but a painful memory. Inflation ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
The Australian stock market was around 1.5 per cent lower at noon ahead of the Reserve Bank of Australia's interest rate decision, after diversified financials and transport stocks helped the market claw back some lost ground. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark ...

Darkest before dawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
Well now, there we have it. If the January effect holds, US equity investors and the rest of us should all go on vacation and come back next year. The January effect postulates that the US stock market's performance for the entire month of January predicts ...

Planners turn to cash and TD funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
Cash and term deposit funds from St George, UBS and Adelaide Bank led the list of Aviva's top 10 funds for net inflows during 2008 while Platinum International Fund and Perpetual Wholesale Industrial Fund suffered the highest level of redemptions over ...

BNP Paribas taps Chile market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
BNP Paribas Investment Partners has bought a more than 49 per cent stake in the Chilean based Banco del Estado de Chile (BancoEstado) asset management subsidiary Administradora General de Fondos. The Chilean bank has developed a significant asset management ...

Fee for service planners on the rise

A sub-segment of financial planners expect revenue from pure 'fee for service' models to increase to almost a quarter of their total revenue in three years, a survey of more than 1,100 planners has found. The inaugural Investment Trends Planner Business ...

Good management pays, governance not yet

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
... risk, has just released its February 2008 share price performance indices. According to the RepuTex Governance Leaders Index (GLI), which monitors ASX-listed companies displaying positive corporate governance credentials, companies with good corporate ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
Australian stocks have recovered considerably from yesterday's alarming global market slump, boosted by a surprise, emergency 75 basis points interest rate cut by the US Federal Reserve. Global investors braced themselves for another big day of losses ...