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Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
Shares are more than 1% firmer as Australian investors shrug off concerns about slowing global growth. The big banks and miners were leading the broader local market higher as investors took their cues from a rebound on US and European markets, Australian ...

Jawbone collection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
Just when I was about to ditch Chumbawamba's "I get knocked down" as the equity market's 2014 anthem... the central bankers came and (re)played it all again. "I get knocked down but I get up again, you're never going to keep me down". Nah Virginia ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... Ordinaries index was up 15.8 points, or 0.3 per cent, at 5,260.1 points. NEW YORK - US shares have surged after a strong rise in Europe's equity markets, with investor zeal returning following a sell-off earlier in the week. The Dow Jones Industrial ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
The share market is more than 1% weaker as investors worry about sluggish global growth and the Ebola crisis in west Africa. All sectors are suffering losses as Asian share markets follow the downward trajectory of US and European markets. Weaker commodity ...

BNP Paribas custody MD resigns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... competitor to BNP Paribas. A spokesperson for BNP Paribas said the company wanted him to stay and is sorry to see him go. Europe-based head of client development Charles Cock will take the reins of the business while it seeks a replacement managing director. ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
Talk about being careful... for they might come true. 'Twas not so long ago that Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF) and the IMF worried about complacency in the financial markets as indicated by low, down on the ground ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
Australian shares looks set to open lower following substantial falls on international markets as investors take fright at new US data underscoring the fragile state of the global economy. At 0805 AEDT on Thursday, the December share price index futures ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
Australian stocks continue to fall, starting the week nearly one per cent lower after posting the biggest decline in 15 months on Friday. Before Monday, the share market had lost more than eight per cent, or more than $130 billion, in value since early ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... market strategist Stan Shamu said. "There is a massive unwind with global growth concerns, the US starting to tighten, Europe is in a very bad place and Abenomics (Japan's economic policy) is not working either," he said. The biggest falls are in resources ...

NZ Super CEO higher paid than Aussie counterparts

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... from 1.7% to 2.5% of its overall portfolio. Almost half of all its investments are in North American assets, with 25% in Europe and 14% in New Zealand. The report also showed that the fund heavily favours passive over active investment, with 70% of its ...