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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2008
... got something for its $30 billion bonds and the price of oil going down. "I think those two things put a little bit of spring back in the market." Merrill Lynch yesterday moved to dump billions of dollars of mortgage debt and raise $US8.5 billion in ...

BT and Asgard to lead platform market

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2008
... close to a third of all financial planners in Australia saying that [the combined entity] is their primary platform," said Mark Johnston, principal of Investment Trends. Johnston said BT and Asgard currently hold a 16 per cent each primary market share ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2008
... Nasdaq Composite Index was down 19.91 points, or 0.81 per cent, at 2,444.67. LONDON - The UK stock market was closed for the Spring Bank Holiday. It will reopen on Tuesday. On Friday, Britain's leading stock index slid 1.53 per cent to end its worst ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2008
... closed down 94.3 points at 6,087.3, for a weekly loss of 217 points. The UK stock market will be closed on Monday for the Spring Bank Holiday. FRANKFURT - The DAX index ended at 6,944.05 points, down 126.28 or 1.79 per cent, dropping 212.5 points during ...

Carbon transport the next big thing

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
Investors looking for a radical way to grow their savings should watch out for new industries that will develop out of the storage and transportation of carbon dioxide, as the move towards using clean coal power stations continue to gain traction. "On ...

US property still has upside

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
... speculative construction is much more difficult to finance. The fear of substantial overbuilding, palpable this past [northern] spring, is receding sharply and the markets should firm, driving real rent gains by 2010." A broader question however is whether ...

BRIC sector splits SRI managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... glaring failures on the human rights front - the death sentence, Guantanamo and its huge prison population are three that spring to mind," he said. However, Hunter Hall does have a strict exclusion policy within its Global Deep Green Trust, which means ...

Here, kitty kitty

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2007
While extreme weather conditions have already impacted the world's main food producers, increasing inflation and raising price pressures, a bush tucker diet including feral cats may be the answer. According to Brian Turner, executive editor of UK personal ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2007
... dollar extended its gains against the yen. Trade was relatively thin with many participants away for Japan's Golden Week spring holidays. The Nikkei rose 119.94 points to 17,394.92. HONG KONG - Blue chips gained 0.34 per cent, as HSBC rose after a Dubai-based ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2007
... 6712.06 points. PARIS - The CAC-40 index lost 1.09 points to 5502.18. TOKYO - The Japanese stock market was closed for the Spring Equinox Day holiday. On Tuesday the Nikkei climbed 153.65 points to 17,163.20. HONG KONG - Hong Kong blue chips rose as ...