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APX given green light

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
The Government has approved variations to the Asia Pacific Exchange Limited (APX) market licence, integrity and operating rules and compensation arrangements, Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, Bill Shorten and the Parliamentary Secretary ...

Insto investors bullish on equities: EIU survey

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
Institutional investors expect the highest returns from equities this year, as government bonds are increasingly called into question. An Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) survey of 730 senior institutional investors in Australia and around the world ...

Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more...We must be over the rainbow!" -Dorothy (Wizard of Oz) And if not, we're surely on our way...and a pot of gold awaits (the metaphorical one of course, not the metal that's now in a bear market). Forget ...

NZ Super sells forestry assets to Chinese state owned company

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund (NZSF) has sold a portfolio of 11 forestry blocks in New Zealand's North Island to a Chinese state owned logging group. NZSF general manager of investments, Matt Whineray said selling the forest blocks would enable ...

It's the headlines, you twit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
"BREAKING NEWS: President@BarackObama assassinated, 2 gunshot wounds have proved too much. It's a sad 4th for #america. #obamadead RIP." Were it not for this Twitter post - later discovered to be caused by Associated Press' twitter feed being hacked ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after strong rises on international markets overnight as traders focused on corporate earnings and brushed aside weaker-than-expected economic data out of Germany and China. At 0744 AEST on Wednesday, the ...

Three arrows hitting the spot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
"Your love keeps liftin' me higher Than I've ever been lifted before..." - Jackie Wilson No Virginia, it's not about Wall Street this time...this time investors are back lovin' made-in-Japan stocks...lifting the Nikkei perhaps not higher than it's been ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after gains on Wall Street and a mixed performance on European markets as traders balanced political progress in Italy, with the surprise re-election of President Giorgio Napolitano, with disappointing ...

A week's walk on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
There were ups and downs on Wall Street the week before this week, just as the week before that, and before that, and...with each daily dose of data taken to confirm whatever pre-conceived biases we have. It just takes a short walk down the very short ...

May's not far away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013
It's getting close. It's less than two weeks away. Then we're in May -- that month of the year when the old Wall Street adage tells investors everywhere to sell and go away. And right on cue, the financial news are getting gloomier. We've already touched ...