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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2011
The Australian share market was slightly higher at noon, following a positive lead from Wall Street overnight. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 4.7 points higher, by 0.1 per cent, at 4,806.5 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2011
The Australian share market was higher at noon, led by the finance and resources sectors. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 12.3 points higher, by 0.26 per cent, at 4,775.4 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had risen 10.9 ...

Fin services firms rally to aid Queensland

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
From donations to charitable activities, Australia's financial services professionals are reaching out to help Queensland's flood victims in a show of unity and support. ANZ, Commonwealth Bank and Westpac have each donated $1 million to Queensland Premier ...

More to retirement than super: planner

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
A large-scale retirement survey by AXA backs previous research that majority of Gen Xers wait until the last minute before they start saving for retirement, but one planner makes suggestions on how thirty-somethings can start saving now without digging ...

More turbulence ahead: De Bever

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
The former chief investment officer of the Victorian Funds Management Corporation says that "bonds are an accident waiting to happen" and that the global economy is on the cusp of "a huge structural shift, probably one that we haven't seen since 1900." ...

SG at 12pc will help Reserve manage inflation: Keating

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
Former prime minister Paul Keating entered the debate over increasing SG to 12 per cent, arguing that it will help the Reserve Bank manage aggregate demand without raising interest rates. Keating, speaking on ABC television's Lateline program last night ...

ECB relents, sort of

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
Why bring a rocket launcher to a fight when a BB gun would suffice. This must be what European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet last night when he announced only "small" measures to battle ongoing financial market tension in the Eurozone. ...

Open fire roasted bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
"Deck the halls with boughs of holly, Fa la la la la, la la la la. Tis the season to be jolly, Fa la la la la, la la la la" "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Ev'rywhere you go." Please excuse my cheerful mood. I've been singing these tunes ...

Rise of Asia bonds: Temasek

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... key alternative funding source for investors, said the chief financial officer of the $147 billion Temasek Holdings. Leong Wai Leng, chief financial officer of Temasek Holdings, said the market expects some US$17 trillion of public debt refinancing and ...

First State app gets 11,000 hits

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
Less than four months after First State Super launched its inaugural iPhone app for members to check their super, the fund has recorded 11,000 downloads - and expects more people to sign up. First State Super, which had $18.6 billion at the end of June ...