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UK becoming OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
... at a key summit and Wall Street's Nasdaq was pulled down more than two per cent by a tech stock rout led by Apple and Microsoft. At 0750 AEDT on Monday, the December share price index futures contract was down 45 points at 4,522. In economic news on ...

Towers Watson expands Microsoft agreement

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
Global professional services company Towers Watson has broadened the terms of its agreement with Microsoft to adapt some software applications, develop new processes for risk-based modelling applications and increase use of cloud computing. Mark Beardall ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... quiet trade that still had enough might to push Apple to become the world's most valuable company of all time, eclipsing Microsoft's 1999 record. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 3.56 points (0.03 per cent), finishing at 13,271.64. The S&P 500-stock ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... per cent drop on a downgrade from Morgan Stanley led a broad fall in tech stocks; Hewlett-Packard fell 4.1 per cent, Microsoft 3.0 per cent, Lenovo 6.0 per cent and Dell 2.1 per cent. At the close the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 138.12 points ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... Europe followed the Federal Reserve's slashing its growth forecast for the United States. Tech stocks fell broadly, with Microsoft's 2.6 per cent loss helping pull the Nasdaq 2.4 per cent lower. Growth-related plays like mining stocks and oil took the ...

Asgard launches new website for advisers

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
... reporting, and offers an interactive calendar with key cut-off dates for transactions that can be simply loaded in to either Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes. The site also offers processing and reporting of current information regarding key client reports ...

Dickens on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
... expected but jobless claims, industrial production, the Empire State and Philly Fed indexes and housing disappointed. Microsoft, General Electric, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley topped earnings estimates but IBM, Intel and Qualcomm fell short of ...

Market Wrap-Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
... Australian market looks set to open slightly higher after solid German business confidence data and stronger profits from Microsoft, McDonald's and other major US corporations helped the Dow Jones finish about 0.5 per cent higher. At 0800 AEST on Monday ...

It's all in the spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012
... which part of the elephant you're holding. But there's no two ways about the better than expected earnings results from Microsoft and Bank of America and Morgan Stanley. They all beat both lines - top (revenue) and bottom (net profit) -- estimates. Where ...