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Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
The Australian share market has broken the 4500 level for the first time this year, led by big gains in the resource and energy sectors. At 1201 AEDT on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 21.4 points, or 0.48 per cent, at 4,503.3 points ...

Good jobs bad jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... the month. Better, the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised its estimate of employment for July (up an extra 40,000) and August (up 46,000) higher for a net increase of 86,000. Nay, it was so good, that you could almost picture the Big O grinning from ...

Failure is not an option

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
It's been a month -- or thereabouts -- since the European Central Bank -- followed by the US Federal Reserve followed by the Bank of Japan -- gave financial markets what they wished, prayed and hoped for and fired the first salvo of quantitative easing. ...

Data deluge delivers no clearer visibility

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
'Twas raining data updates over the past 24 hours. Eco stats and surveys flooded cyberspace unrelentingly, one after the other, and yet near-term visibility remains almost... invisible. Take your pick Virginia. There are numbers to back up the "we're ...

Super funds out-perform TDs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
Super funds delivering 12 month returns of 6.8% are now almost two-thirds higher than their cash term deposit counterparts. SelectingSuper has just reported that the workplace default option index for the 12 months to end August 2012 skyrocketed in ...

ANZ fined over futures contracts

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
ANZ was last week fined $US350,000 by commodity regulators in the United States, after exceeding speculative position limits in wheat and cotton futures contracts. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said ANZ had exceeded speculative ...

Market wrap - AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... September. But the impact of the ISM's buoyant purchasing managers index reading - 51.5 last month compared to 49.6 in August - wore off in late trade, leaving the S&P 500 in positive turf but the Nasdaq hit for a loss. At the closing bell the Dow Jones ...

Razor to board's pay follows PwC review

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
Perpetual's directors have had their pay slashed after a review by PricewaterhouseCoopers found that they were overpaid. After the ASX-listed financial services company's 2011 annual general meeting returned a 26% 'no' vote on the remuneration package ...

Investor confidence index down: State Street

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
North American and Asian investors dragged down global investor confidence in September, according to State Street's Investor Confidence Index (ICI). The Global ICI fell from August's revised reading of 91 to 86.9. North American investor confidence ...

Pick your poison

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... to tell you all about the good news in China too - the Conference Board's leading index for China increased by 1.7% in August - the fastest in seven months - following a 0.6% rise in the previous month. Of course not. It'll juts get in the way of a good ...