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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... nervousness at the lack of movement to end the US government shutdown, as a deadline approaches for lawmakers to raise the country's borrowing limit. Tokyo lost 1.22 per cent, or 170.99 points, to end at 13,853.32, Sydney fell 0.90 per cent, or 46.9 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013
... Australian stocks are weaker as investors grow increasingly concerned about the US government shutdown and the possibility the country will end up defaulting on its debt. Local shares dropped after falls on global markets overnight, and the market's ...

Federal election boosts Australians' economic optimism

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2013
... years," Allianz Australia managing director Niran Peiris said. The index also showed that optimism generally rose across the country with the exception of South Australia, which appeared unmoved by the change of Federal Government. The biggest rises ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2013
... in Tokyo, as investors fretted over a budgetary impasse in Washington and political uncertainty in Italy, sending the country's bank shares crashing. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index dropped 0.77 per cent to close at 6,462.22 points on Monday, while ...

Australian giving grows by $248 million

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013
... Statistics 2010-11. The Charities Aid Foundation's 2012 World Giving Index has also ranked Australia the world's most generous country ahead of Ireland, Canada, New Zealand and the US. The ranking is based on Australia having the highest levels of involvement ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2013
... markets moved lower early on Thursday, Australian time, as budget talks between US lawmakers yielded little progress. The country may face a federal government shutdown if the budget is not passed by October 1. Commsec market analyst Steven Daghlian ...

Former UBS MD resurfaces at Australasian Wealth Investments

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2013

Consumers in EM, an opportunity for investors

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013
... anything cheaper but unreliable. As middle and higher class emerge, luxury goods consumption becomes "a multi-year, multi-country theme." "We have also seen how leisure is not only limited to the emerging middle classes. Working classes also want cable ...

The Trust Company appoints New Zealand country head

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013

Syria on ice and other things nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013