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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2010
... to purchase homes fell in June. Traders are also uneasy ahead of the Labor Department's July employment report due out Friday. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 38 points, or 0.36 per cent, to 10,636.38. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell lost ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
... likely to get some foreign money coming in here." At 1035 AEST, the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.9095/99, up from Friday's local close of $US0.9012/14. Mr Weston said he expected trading volumes on Monday to be lower than usual, given it was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
... Octaviar continues in the NSW Supreme Court. The Diggers and Dealers Mining Forum begins in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. On Friday, Australia's sharemarket suffered broad-based falls as investors offloaded risk. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
The Australian stock market made further losses by noon on Friday, following disappointing company reports. At 1200 AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 27 points, or 0.6 per cent, at 4,497.1, while the broader All Ordinaries index had dropped ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
The Australian stock market is likely to open weaker on Friday after a fall on Wall Street overnight. Miners and energy stocks may gain after the price of metals and oil gained overnight. At 0806 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share ...

Should super go social?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
... take the trend seriously, the better off they will be. Speaking at the ASFA Communications Forum held in Melbourne last Friday, Anderson challenged the audience to switch from the Web 1.0 monologue (talking to members) and turn to a Web 2.0 dialogue ...

SAP and Sybase merger gets ACCC tick

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
... merged firm in each product category." The ACCC announced its findings after a review of the proposal was completed last Friday. Earlier in May, Sybase directors backed a deal for SAP to buy the technology firm for a cash offer worth more than $7 billion ...

ASFA Awards recognise top comms strategies

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
... and communications staff of various super funds, gathered at the annual ASFA Communications Awards held in Melbourne last Friday. The awards, now in its sixth year running as a standalone event, featured entries that included a Facebook campaign, an ...

Seven US banks close in a week

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
... banking system are far from over. According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation website, seven banks were closed on Friday, July 23. There has been over 100 banks that were seized during 2010. The latest ones include: Home Valley Bank, Grants ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
The Australian stock market is expected to open higher after gains on Wall Street on Friday. At 0725 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was up 40 points at 4,476 points, on volume of 3,136 contracts. In economics ...