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Investors look east, Australia falls behind

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
... investors looking to capitalise on a free economy, suggests an annual report by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal. The port city, which benefits from zero trade barriers and 17.5 per cent tax for both foreign and local investments ...

US-Aust rates spread widens to 250 bps

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
... globally. The US no longer controls oil, but hey they can control the next best thing: money. Which is why the Wall Street Journal has reported Bear Stearns saying, "The Fed continues to couch its policy actions in terms of their impact on economic growth ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2007
... superfund to ease problems in the credit market, are expected to seek support from others in the industry, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 181.84 points, or 1.42 per cent, at 12,980.88. The Standard & Poor's ...

Sub-prime still has teeth

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2007
... worst daily percentage drop in 18 years falling as much as 11.5 per cent in Friday trading. According to the Wall Street Journal, Merrill Lynch could be under investigation over its handling of mortgage debt, which prompted a downgrade of the stock by ...

Liquidity evaporates

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2007
... economist Erik Nielsen praised the move that by day's end had the rate trading around 4.1 per cent. He told The Wall Street Journal "In my view, this is outstanding central banking by the ECB and ought to provide a lot of comfort to the market." With ...

Analyse this: Dow Jones

... refinements to the way many institutions do their quantitative market analysis. Dow Jones & Company publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch and the Far Eastern Economic Review. It also owns Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Dow Jones Client ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2007
... unexpected growth in manufacturing and a surprise $US5 billion bid for Dow Jones & Co Inc, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 73.23 points, or 0.56 per cent, at 13,136.14. The ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2007
... $US5 billion bid for Dow Jones & Co Inc by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. The offer for the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, which sent Dow Jones shares surging more than 54 per cent, was the latest in a wave of takeover proposals, suggesting to some ...

Alternative low-cost retirement funds on rise in US

... pay for retail distribution and their turnover rate of trading shares is kept to the minimum. US publication Wall Street Journal reported in an article early this year that the switch to these kind of funds can cut an employer's transaction costs by ...

News Corp in talks with Liberty ? Now clearer and muddier

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2004
... talks. There's some exchanges taking place and conversations, but it's a little sporadic." A reporter from the Wall Street Journal tried to dig a little deeper, asking if Mr Murdoch's "discussions or sporadic exchanges" with Mr Malone related to News ...