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AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2014
... 2.6 points, or 0.05 per cent, to 5,574.2 points. NEW YORK - US stocks have tumbled on disappointing earnings reports from Amazon and some other companies in a move that some analysts also attributed to profit taking. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ...

Prepare for the 'financial Amazon': Joye

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2014
Online financial supermarkets akin to Amazon are the future of financial services distribution, according to YBR Funds Management's Christopher Joye. Speaking at the Financial Standard MAX forum in Sydney yesterday, Joye said there was a surprisingly ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... the S&P 500 lost 1.3 per cent. Enjoying the rebound on Tuesday were Facebook, up 2.2 per cent, Tesla, up 3.8 per cent, Amazon, up 2.9 per cent and Google, up 3.1 per cent. But biotechnology stocks, which have experienced some of the heaviest selling ...

Time to go away?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
... Heritage Capital Management David Moenning cited examples of the kind of dumping certain "buzzed" stocks have suffered: "...Amazon.com (AMZN) is down -20.6 percent from its January high." "Yelp (YELP) has crashed -32.9 percent in just over a month". ...

Fund manager criticises "rip-off" fees

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014
... despite the electronic revolution and the huge falls in operating costs," he said. "For heaven's sake, it's no different than Amazon selling books versus Dymocks. Innovation happens and price disruption occurs. We need to move on." DGI runs a single ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
... Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on Wall Street driven by better-than-expected earnings from Amazon and Microsoft and solid results from Procter & Gamble and UPS. At 0816 AEDT on Monday, the December share price index futures ...

Butterfly effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2013

Midwinter puts planning software into the cloud

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... renewal notices and opt-in, generate fee disclosure statements and manage client segmentation. The software is hosted on the Amazon web services which Midwinter said is "secure." "When we saw that Commonwealth Bank had chosen Amazon to host their banking ...

J.P. Morgan buys into online shopping

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... department store with operations in Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines and Thailand. Considered to be a replica of Amazon, Lazada caters for everything from consumer electronics to household goods and is ranked in the top 20,000 websites worldwide ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... the broader S&P 500-stock index added 1.60 (0.11 per cent) to 1,405.53. But the tech-heavy Nasdaq index got a boost from Amazon and Cisco to end a solid 13.95 points higher (0.46 per cent) to 3,030.93. Sharemarkets in London and Frankfurt were weaker ...