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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... Britain's top share index ticked up to end its worst quarterly performance in more than five years, as gains in oil shares and bid target Friends Provident offset losses in Vodafone. The FTSE 100 closed up 9.2 points, or 0.16 per cent at 5,702.1, after ...

MFS morphs into GEO

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
... Property Group as security holders yesterday gave the green light for a name swap. The firm flagged the change last month in a bid to distance itself from it's troubled listed business, MFS Limited. "This is a logical step for the group given it is financially ...

AXA online gets thumbs up

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
... company announced earlier this month that it intended to invest more than double each year into its life insurance business in a bid to move from its position as a sixth rank provider to one of the top three in the sector. In previous years, AXA invested ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
... - New Zealand's Auckland International Airport Ltd said on Friday that 58 percent of shareholders had voted in favour of a bid by a Canadian state pension fund to acquire a 40 per cent stake in the airport. NEW YORK - Shares of Bear Stearns Cos plunged ...

DIY investors not happy

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
... investors needs aren't being met," said Ravell. Wealth Focus launched its own discount DIY investment service this week in a bid to tap into the market. The firm claims to "provide an alternative for disgruntled investors looking for personalised ser ...

Bridges takes over as Scobie departs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
Peter Scobie has bid farewell to his position as head of fixed interest at Suncorp/Tyndall to take up the role of associate director - global fixed interest credit at QIC. Meanwhile ex-Tyndall head of fixed income and bonds, Roger Bridges, has moved ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
... Index was up 6.73 points, or 0.25 per cent, at 2,267.01. LONDON - Britain's leading share index rose 1.5 per cent, lifted by bid talk around insurers and property firm Liberty International, and a surprise fillip from US services data. The FTSE 100 closed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
... plunge of more than 2 per cent, led by heavy selling in Auckland Airport shares on further doubts about a Canadian takeover bid's success. The NZSX-50 benchmark index closed up 0.2 points at 3584.5, recovering 80 points from its earlier low, on healthy ...

Retail profits, currency price cuts and ag-flation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
... hitting their all time high, signalling a new round of food price inflation as local consumers brace themselves for having to bid with export buyers for produce. Of course high wheat prices only help Australian farmers if they get enough rain to help ...

Money changes hands

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 FEB 2008
The surging Australian dollar due to the collapse in the greenback is quickening the pace of the US's economic fall and pointing to looming revisions in how we manage the global currency system. Illustrating the concerns, an online poll on the Fat Prophets ...