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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open lower today after US stocks fell again as investors worried that the US congress was beginning to doubt the need for a government bailout of financial institutions as a way to revive credit markets. At ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
The Australian stock market has received a negative lead from Wall Street, where volatility swept across the financial markets as doubts intensified over the US government's $US700 billion bailout of the banking sector. At 0744 AEST, the Sydney Futures ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
... labour force quarter data for August. Bell Financial Group and Jabiru Metals Ltd hold general meetings. In Canberra, the ACCI/Westpac issue their survey of industrial trends for the September quarter. The second annual Asia-Pacific Experiential Marketing ...

Fitzpatrick vacates VFMC chair

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
Mike Fitzpatrick, chairman of the $37 billion Victorian Funds Management Corporation, is ending his three year term in January next year. In a media statement released yesterday, VFMC confirmed that Fitzpatrick had advised the fund's board that he will ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
... share price index futures contract was down 85 points at 4,920. In news today, Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) small business survey will be released, the Housing Industry Association of Australia issues its state and national outlook ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2008
... interest rates on hold. Also today, the AI Group - PwC Australian performance manufacturing index for June, the SAI Global/ACCI quarterly Survey of Investor Confidence and the RBA commodity price index for June will be released. The Australian share ...

Funeral insurance goes online

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
Zurich Financial Services Australia is adding funeral cover to its online product range. Zurich unveiled the new online offering that aims to help fund the expenses associated with funerals as part of its ongoing strategy to make life insurance accessible ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2008
The Australian sharemarket was trading lower at noon with no lead from the US market and as investors took a breather after a week of rallying. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 18.9 points to 5,583.8, and the broader All Ordinaries ...

Zurich's timely insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2008
Zurich is looking to up its stake in the life risk insurance playing field as it launches "Select Term" insurance, which breaks insurance in manageable chunks of 5,10 and 15 years. Zurich claims its Select Term product is created to "to provide certainty ...

Retail profits, currency price cuts and ag-flation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
... take heat out of the Reserve Bank's mood for raising interest rates. Yet the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) in a statement last week asked the government to lower personal tax rates which surely would only put more fuel on the fire ...