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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
... closed sharply lower on Monday after more bad news, with Japan in recession and US banking giant Citigroup cutting 50,000 jobs globally. In London, the FTSE 100 index of leading shares was down 100.81 points, or 2.38 per cent, to 4,132.16 points. FRANKFURT ...

Four in five happy with their super: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2008
... automatically raised by a certain per cent on top of the minimum 9 per cent SG when they get a pay rise or when changing jobs.

New resources, fresh ads for advisers

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
... others. "Everyone is worried about the current economic situation, and the inevitable impact on superannuation, savings, jobs, spending, and general confidence," said Jo-Anne Bloch, chief executive of the FPA. "Members can now find everything under the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
... government. General Motors Corp, whose shares have plunged to 60-year lows, said late on Monday it would cut 1,900 factory jobs on top of the 3,600 cuts it announced Friday. In preliminary closing figures, the Dow Jones industrial average shed 176.18 ...

Sisyphian challenge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
... boulder up and over. For sure, as we have repeatedly mentioned in the past, this will involve pain. Businesses will shudder and jobs will be lost. But ultimately, this will help clean the system of its excesses and perhaps serve as a lesson to humankind ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... European stock markets closed sharply higher, getting a boost from gains on Wall Street as investors bet that a very weak US jobs report would prompt more interest rate cuts. London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares gained 92.55, or 2.17 per cent, to ...

Humpty Dumpty Syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
... may have engendered hope in the American people but it will not immediately prod them to go out and spend. Not when their jobs are threatened. Not when they are still paying high mortgages or threatened with foreclosures. Not when businesses are finding ...

Former Virgin Money execs launch Mozo

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
... services aggregators have, to date, succeeded in establishing sites that hits the mark with consumers, the way online sites for jobs, real estate, travel and cars have done. "The online financial aggregator model has been attempted before in Australia ...

Crisis on Facebook

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
Call it the financial crisis that launched a thousand Facebook sites. The Web 2.0 has spawned Depression 2.0, a social networking site where individuals discuss a return to the Great Depression of the 30s. Financial planners and fund managers who want ...

Period of cleansing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... consequences of the global economic recession - on business activity, on corporate profits, on their investments, on their jobs. This will remain the state of play in the financial markets for a while. Unless one or two governments or central banks somewhere ...