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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014
... price index futures contract was up three points at 5,053. European markets were mixed but US stocks moved higher after Microsoft made a long-awaited announcement on a new chief executive and a handful of corporate results bested expectations. Microsoft ...

Skaffold makes Asia deal with Thomson Reuters

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
... 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 contract ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on Wall Street which enjoyed a jolt from Microsoft's announcement that chief executive Steve Ballmer will retire within the next 12 months. The US Commerce Department's unwelcome US new-home ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... which became the latest giant equity to disappoint after last week's unimpressive results from Coca-Cola, Google and Microsoft. LONDON - European stocks suffered mixed fortunes with high gold prices offering some support while a string of uneven US earnings ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... YORK - US stocks ended mixed after strong earnings from some industrial companies were countered by feeble results from Microsoft and other technology companies. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished down a scant 4.80 (0.03 per cent) to 15,543.74. ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... in a strong way. "I think investors will stay fairly cautious." Mr Spooner said disappointing earnings reports from Microsoft and Google after the US market had closed on Thursday (US time) had affected the local bourse. Both companies' results fell ...

Financial planners opt for software homogeneity

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013
... morphed over the past decade," said Investment Trends senior analyst Recep Peker. "Where VisiPlan used to dominate, and Microsoft Excel was used to plug the gaps, XPLAN is now the main planning tool for half of Australian planners." Despite its small ...

Praemium launches FoFA-ready CRM tool

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) solution for financial advisers. WealthCraft, integrates fully with Microsoft Outlook, enabling advisers and wealth managers to track and manage interactions with clients and helping them to meet their ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
... Nasdaq Composite Index added 39.69 (1.25 per cent) to 3,206.06. The gains followed earnings reports from Google and Microsoft that exceeded expectations, while IBM and McDonald were laggards. But volumes were down with the country fixated on the hunt ...