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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
The Australian share market defied a weak offshore lead to make marginal gains in opening trade, buoyed by strength in materials and financials stocks. At 1013 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 6.9 points, or 0.15 per cent, at 4,507.4, while ...

Mentoring opportunity for women in finance

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
A mentoring program has been launched for women working in finance. The program is designed to help attract more women to the industry and tackle issues surrounding the shortage of women on company boards and in senior roles. Women in Finance (WIF) ...

Big Benny and little Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
Fresh events and reports released overnight really did not add to what we already know. We already know that Greece will be bailed out for a default because its exit from the Eurozone would trigger a game of "who's next?" Small and insignificant Greece ...

Currency Forum to pose big questions

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
Financial Standard will be hosting the Currency Management Forum 2011 in Sydney on June 28 with expert analysis on the impact of currency trades on the state of the economy and investor returns. The event will explore macro economic forecasts for currency ...

Labor moves to justify super existence

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
The government has reaffirmed its commitment to the superannuation system and the need to grow it further, as it continues to be used as a prominent figure on the political battleground. In defence of on-going criticism from the opposition party on ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... points lower at 4,493, with 15,422 contracts traded. US stocks closed lower on Wednesday after US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke offered a bleak outlook on the struggling economic recovery and slashed half a point off its estimate of gross domestic ...

The sound of QE3

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
"People hearing without listening." Simon & Garfunkel, The Sound of Silence The US Federal Reserve has spoken - and financial markets didn't like what they heard, for they didn't listen. It was another down day on The Street after the Fed's post-FOMC ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
The Australian stock market has received a mostly negative lead from offshore trading, after Wall Street closed lower and copper prices settled weaker. But oil, gold and silver prices ended firmer. At 0743 AEST, the September share price index futures ...

Trust Company benefiting from global flows

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
The Trust Company is increasing its footprint as a trustee in Asia, winning new bond mandates while also seeing inbound investment flows from Canada and Europe. Talking at the company's 2011 annual general meeting, chairman Bruce Corlett said the Trust ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... Minister George Papandreou's government survived a confidence vote in parliament 155 votes to 143. IG Markets market strategist Ben Potter noted the share market had retreated a bit after opening 1.3 per cent higher on Wednesday morning. "There has been ...