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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2006
... since August 11, adding to a 1.78 per cent fall the previous day. HONG KONG - Blue chips rose 0.75 per cent as bargain hunters bid up China Mobile Ltd and other blue chips, while rebounding oil and metal prices failed to fully abate selling pressure ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2006
... $11.15. "The big news of the day is that DCA have come out and confirmed they have been approached with a highly conditional bid," Ms Spencer said. The radiology company DCA Group today said it had received highly conditional proposals regarding its ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2006
The Australian share market is expected to open stronger today following a firm lead from Wall Street on better than expected US jobs numbers on Friday. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contact was up 36 points at 5,109 ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
... nearly six per cent, to $13.84. Mr Ferguson said media reports that private equity groups were close to lodging a takeover bid for Coles were driving up the stock. "The market is suggesting that bid is imminent," he said. On Wall Street overnight, stocks ...

MLC launches into after-tax reporting

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2006
... Michael Clancy, said many investment managers based their strategies around achieving better headline figures than peers in a bid to attract business, at a cost to the take home returns of investors. "Because investment managers are generally evaluated ...

Hunter Hall shares the wealth with staff

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2006
Hunter Hall has announced a staff equity plan and executive profit sharing scheme in a bid to retain key personnel for the long term, a strategy which will see portfolio managers eventually owning 10 per cent of the company. The Portfolio Manager Share ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2006
... nearly three weeks on lacklustre volumes, boosted by oil shares, which tracked product prices higher, while miners rallied on bid talk and a jump in base metal prices. The FTSE 100 index ended 11.8 points or 0.2 per cent higher at 5,915.2, but volumes ...

RecruitmentSuper offers health benefits

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2006
In a bid to differentiate itself, RecruitmentSuper has introduced a new member benefits program which offers fund members MBF private health insurance. As part of the arrangement, MBF will waive waiting periods for new RecruitmentSuper members who sign ...

GIO Insurance directors hit with heavy penalties

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2006
... found to have breached their duty of care and legal due diligence responsibilities in their actions around an AMP Insurance bid for the organization in 1998-1999. In the case of Vines, the court found that he had breached his duties as director and failed ...

Asgard makes shares easy through E*Trade

... to the group's existing platform software adviserNET. "This new agreement with E*TRADE is just another step forward in our bid to have the best equities product of any platform in the market," he said. The tie-up with E*TRADE is part of Asgard's long ...