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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
The Australian share market was firmly in the black at noon - up more than two per cent - driven by a strong lead from the US on Friday after bellwether stocks Google and Caterpillar delivered profit results above expectations. Despite posting a $US5.11 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher this morning after US stocks gained on Friday on better than expected profit results from Caterpillar and Google, and from Citigroup. At 0757 AEST, on the Sydney Futures exchange, the June share ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
The Australian share market was over one per cent in the red at noon following a weak performance on Wall street and a decline in metals overnight. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 1.19 per cent, or 84.0 points lower, at 5435.0, while ...

Abacus banks on new wave of tourists

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
Tourists from the US and Japan may be down but hotel property investments are still a good bet thanks to a growing number of visitors from China, Korea and India, according to Abacus Funds Management. Abacus claims Australia's hospitality industry would ...

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 ...

From Slovakia with love

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
... budget deficit, Slovakia's lingering nemesis is inflation. Despite higher inflation late last year and again this quarter, Citi expects one-off controls on energy prices to keep Slovakia's inflation under the Maastricht inflation criterion of close to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher this morning, despite overnight falls on Wall Street and amongst base metals in London. On the Sydney Futures exchange, the June share price index at 0705 AEST was up 45 points at 5673. In the news ...

Flight of the squeamish

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
... disinflation scare of 2003. But not even the Fed's new TSFL program could stop broad market trading liquidity declining with Citi's US Rate Liquidity Index more than 50 per cent higher (worse) than during the long term capital market (LTCM) crisis. Despite ...

Credit Suisse buys AXE stake

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... securities by avoiding stock markets, whereby a broker matches buyers and sellers within the pool of members. Credit Suisse joins Citi, Commonwealth Securities, Goldman Sachs JBWere, Macquarie, Merrill Lynch and NZX as shareholders in AXE ECN. Collectively ...

Climate change rhetoric unsustainable

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
The reaction to the proposed plastic bag levy and expected energy price rises due to having to pay for carbon output shows Australia may not be as committed to sustainability as we claim to be. Australia is the nation which has the most signatories ...