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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2007
Australian shares were higher at noon on thin trading because of Melbourne Cup Day. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 60.9 points higher to 6643.2, while the All Ordinaries was 52.4 points stronger to 6672.5. On the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Markets shake rattle and roll

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2007
... world worth more than US$1 trillion. PetroChina shares have tripled in value and were up as much as 191 per cent at one point. Cup day today should make for a lazy afternoon on the local markets and especially with such short odds on an RBA interest ...

Deck the halls with interest rate hikes

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2007
... have poured straight into cash registers as retail spending data has shown a blow-out that has the market not just certain Cup Day will win us a rate hike but there will likely be another one under the Christmas tree. Yesterday's retail trade data and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2007
... meeting of the Reserve Bank of Australia early next week. "There are expectations there could be a tightening on Melbourne Cup day... which will to a degree impact our currencies and some stocks that have US dollar-based earnings." In the US overnight ...

Raging bull in sub-prime abattoir

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
... its highest since then. With inflation accelerating, it's getting harder to find an economist who doesn't believe Melbourne Cup day will bring an interest rate hike that will lift the cash rate to 6.75 per cent, with a further rise expected in the first ...

Rate reprieve scratch during Cup Carnival?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2007
Worse-than-expected CPI figures could crash the Melbourne Cup Carnival, while the Aussie dollar dances to the beat of the rate hike speculation. The trimmed mean consumer price index (CPI) figure rose to 0.9 per cent in the September quarter and consensus ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2007
... New Zealand sharemarket was slightly firmer but volumes were quiet as the nation mourned its ejection from the Rugby World Cup. The benchmark NZSX-50 index lifted 11.19 points to 4295.24.

Tawrrific APEC and the Berlin Wall

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2007
... Hawke and 11 ministers were shacked up in Canberra's Hyatt, taking a break to hear 30/1 long shot Tawrrific win the Melbourne Cup. It would be interesting to know what the odds were of the real Berlin Wall coming down, which happened just two days later ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2006
... the way, underpinned by strong gains on Wall Street. One stockbroker attributed the strong morning trading to the Melbourne Cup, with brokers and investors wanting to do all their business before the big race this afternoon. ABN Amro Morgans client adviser ...

Rainmaker SelectingSuper Fund of the Year Awards

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2006
... he said. The awards ceremony will feature lifelong winner Nick Farr-Jones, the first Wallaby captain to win the Rugby world Cup and Australia's second most capped rugby scrum half. To book your seat at the Rainmaker SelectingSuper Awards, click here. ...