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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
The Australian share market is trading at six-and-a-half month lows at noon, with investor confidence low due to instability in world markets and the effects of the crisis in Japan. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 6.7 points lower at ...

Fund managers to face new norm in liquidity

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
The rise of high frequency trading and new exchanges coming to Australia will force fund managers to become even more selective when choosing their brokers. While the challenges brought on by increased technology and trading venues are mainly shouldered ...

Oil central bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
Wall Street bobbed up and down along the zero line last night, seemingly lost as to which way to go. At the end of the bell in New York, it decided just to stay put with the S&P 500 and the Dow just a teeny-weeny bit (0.01 per cent) below the zero line. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
The Australian market is receiving mixed leads from offshore trading overnight, with Wall Street's key indices flat, while precious metals were higher and oil eased. On the ASX 24 at 0837 AEDT, the March share price index futures contract was two points ...

Three and a half men

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
Wall Street welcomed March with a big drop with the three major indices down about 1.5 per cent on the day. Oh boy, here we go again. News services were all over the place blaming the renewed spike in crude. Oil spiked - again! - because of reports ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
The Australian dollar was higher on Tuesday, as the market waits on the results of the central bank's board meeting later in the day. At 1200 AEDT on Tuesday, the local unit was trading at 101.93 US cents, up from 101.75 cents on Monday. Since 0700 ...

Century Funds manager bid fails

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
Century Funds Management (Century) has failed to get the numbers needed to replace Opus Capital as manager of Opus 21 due to insufficient voting numbers by unitholders. According to Century, eight in ten voters voted for Century as their preferred manager ...

Queen Qaddafi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
Oil is the word, is the word, is the word. Yup there's no turning the pages of the political, economic and financial news without seeing the letters O-I-L these days. And all because of "Queen" Qaddafi's (UK's The Telegraph reported that he "pleaded ...

Seniors question policy hold-up on retirement

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
National Seniors Australia is tired of waiting for the government to make up its mind on retirement incomes policy and has demanded the government step up with some clarity on what the regulations will be. Speaking at the 2011 SPAA SMSF National Conference ...

Desert storm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
Christchurch continues to dig through the rubble left by the tremor that hit the region three days ago in the hope of rescuing all those still trapped underneath. While on the other part of the globe, Libyan butcher Qaddafi continues to turn his country ...