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BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
... 2009 - somewhere around 6,500 points. We'll get more clues tonight whether we're really headed back into the abyss when Big Ben addresses world central bankers at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He's going to talk on "The Economic Outlook and the Federal Reserve's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
The Australian market has received mixed leads from offshore trading overnight. Wall Street stock indices ended lower, as did precious metals, but base metals and oil were up. At 0745 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index ...

Insto flows boost TRG results

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
Treasury Group Limited, which supports, distributes and invests in boutique fund management businesses, reported a near 36 per cent increase in normalised net profits yesterday, off the back of net inflows and improving markets. The company said normalised ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
The Australian stock market was in positive territory at noon on Thursday, with gains in the banking sector balancing losses in the mining sector. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 13.6 points, or 0.31 per cent, at 4,333.7, while the ...

Cards for houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
Houses continue to burn in America. Yes Virgie, we learned yesterday that no one wanted to buy old houses (existing homes) in the States after the government stopped giving would-be homeowners free money. Last night, we found out that neither were they ...

AMP makes super reading easy

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
AMP has designed a personalised Member Benefits Report that helps engage its members by allowing them to better understand their superannuation. The report will be sent to all 280,000 AMP CustomSuper and SignatureSuper members across direct and planner ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
Prospects are looking up for the Australian market when it opens on Thursday morning, with a late surge on Wall Street ending in a positive finish to the day's trade after earlier losses. Precious metals and oil were higher, too, although base metals ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
The Australian stock market at noon continued to trade lower after United States markets fell in the wake of disappointing housing data and more concerns about the recovery in the US economy. At 1200 AEST on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index ...

AustralianSuper seizes infra leadership

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
Demand for more infrastructure investment creates huge investment opportunities for super funds, and AustralianSuper intends taking a leadership role. The fund has not only announced intentions to appoint four major investment team leaders, including ...

Home trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... if? What if? Blame the anti-Keynesians for forcing the Fed and the government's hands for withdrawing the stimulus too soon. Ben Bernanke - a scholar of the Great Depression - knows this all too well. History really has a tendency to repeat. But similar ...