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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
The Australian stock market has received a positive lead from offshore markets, with Wall Street closing higher and oil and gold prices firmer. At 0741 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 20 points higher at ...

Trust advocates long-term staff incentives

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
Listed financial services group Trust hopes to take its 125-year-old operations into the next century through a staff incentive program that is better aligned with long-term shareholder and client interests. Chief executive John Atkin said that starting ...

Knee-jerk reaction to late action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... I'll be in trouble with my friends at Standard & Poor's again. Surely, nobody expected an upgrade -- not with Greece's budget deficit at 13.6 per cent of a shrinking national output. Not with more cuts in spending and public and private sector work stoppages ...

Liar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
... European Union's official Statistician - called it a liar. Eurostat revealed last night how it discovered that Greece's 2009 budget deficit was 13.6 per cent of GDP - higher than the government's own forecast of 12.9 per cent just two weeks ago and Eurostat's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
... rattled by news about Greece. The country's borrowing costs surged again when Europe's statistics agency found that Greece's budget deficit last year was even larger than previously thought. Greece's debt crisis has undermined confidence in Europe's ...

MySuper proposal ignites storm

ALEX DUNNIN AND RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
... face considerable political hurdles as the report due in June this year will be released immediately following the Federal Budget, within months of a Federal election and before the government has formalised its response to the Ripoll advice practices ...

The retaking of Dow 11000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
... company profit forecasts, etcetera, etcetera. Market sentiment has changed. Last night, no one gave a crap about the US budget deficit and its ballooning government debt or that Greece's problems are not yet over or China is still manipulating its currency ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
... and offset other more positive figures. Continuing concerns over Greece as it sought to raise funds to cover its debt and budget deficits also helped dampen markets which also were beginning to wind down ahead of the Easter break. The benchmark FTSE ...

Greenspan put

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... overhang of federal debt which we have never seen before." Has anyone seen US$1,400,000,000,000 before? That's America's budget deficit as at 30 September 2009. Think that's big? Wait till you hear the deficit expected for fiscal year 2010...a whopping ...

PIMCO Australia draws record $30bn FUM

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
PIMCO Australia posted its biggest year ever in 2009, with funds under management (FUM) up 36 per cent to $30 billion - but with the higher FUM comes the onus to better navigate sovereign risk. Peter Dorrian, PIMCO's head of global wealth management ...