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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... traders were cautious given the negative lead from Wall St and renewed concerns about eurozone debt. Overnight, French President Nicolas Sarkozy promised new measures to slash France's public deficit amid fears that France could be the next country after ...

HOSTPLUS, IOOF allocate mandates

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... $100 million Global Tactical Asset Allocation mandate in April from Colonial First State. Lucas Rooney, senior vice-president of Neuberger Berman Australia, told Financial Standard that while Australian institutions have been very interested in emerging ...

Greed is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... these credit-rating agencies renewed credibility. Oh, sorry I meant to say most investors. Certainly Lucy Nobbe, vice-president of the brokerage arm of US investment bank Wedbush, was one unhappy vegemite. She hired a plane to fly over Standard & Poor's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... Washington's inability to rein in its mounting deficits. US stocks started falling as markets opened and hit new lows after President Barack Obama gave a televised speech to defend Washington's credit-worthiness and declare that the United States "always ...

CFSGAM appoints soft commodities specialist

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... CFSGAM from Merrill Lynch where he covered chemicals, paper and packaging and agricultural sectors as a research vice president. Maia previously worked as a research associate, working across metals, steel and building materials and has covered resources ...

Former AIST chief takes on age discrimination

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
Former president of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST), Susan Ryan has been appointed as the new age discrimination commissioner. The role will be allocated $4 million over four years through the Australian Human Rights Commission. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... with the world's biggest economy. Dealers said the turnaround was brutal in European trade after solid gains in Asia on President Barack Obama's announcement that he had reached an accord with his Republican rivals on raising the debt ceiling and spending ...

Agreement reached on debt ceiling

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... last-minute agreement to raise its debt ceiling, narrowly averting what might have become a global economic disaster. US President Barack Obama announced that Democrat and Republican Party leaders in both the House of Representatives and the Senate have ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... shares are soaring after the United States avoided a debt default with an eleventh hour agreement to cut its deficit. President Barack Obama said the deal will cut about $US1 trillion in spending over 10 years and avoid default, which would have had ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... for June. The Australian Industry Group/Pricewaterhouse performance of manufacturing (PMI) index for July is due. US President Barack Obama is due to give a speech on negotiations to avert a US debt default at 1100 AEST. The Reserve Bank of Australia ...