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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
The Australian share market is expected to open higher on Wednesday on positive leads from Wall Street, although oil and precious metals fell again in overnight trade. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0737 AEST, the June share price index contract ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2010
The broad Australian share market index at noon on Monday had pushed upwards through the 5,000-point barrier for the first time since the global financial crisis. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 33.4 points, or 0.68 per cent, at ...

Perpetual Select Super to slash insurance premium by 40pc

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
The $850 million Perpetual Select Super Plan has terminated its insurance mandate with ING Australia and appointed AIA as its new insurer - a move that saw the plan cut premium rates by up to 40 per cent for some members. Perpetual's decision to take ...

Easter egg hunt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
Has sentiment on Wall Street really, truly changed to positive? Or have financial markets only engaged in an Easter egg hunt for positive news? Read the post-Easter headlines and no matter where you look, financial markets are celebrating not only the ...

Bad news on Good Friday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
It's times like these that those who want to spook the market have their moment. A time when investors are anxiously gnawing on their fingers waiting for the final verdict. That verdict of course is that one single number contained in the US Non-farm ...

Greenspan put

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
"...I'm finding it very difficult to look into the future and not worry about that." This was Citizen Alan Greenspan talking on Bloomberg Television. Alan was referring to America's "federal debt" and its "capacity to borrow". He must have thought it ...

Perennial gains intl insto mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
Perennial Investment Partners is attracting more investment mandates from offshore clients into its global property fund. Brian Thomas, head of retail funds management at Perennial, said the fund manager has focused on gaining more international investors ...

End game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
America is zeroing in on China's weapon of mass destruction - the "overvalued renminbi". Yes Virginia, the US is drawing up battle plans as I write. According to Bloomberg, "Five senators including Charles Schumer of New York and Lindsey Graham of South ...

More of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
Bohh...ring! And I woke up early for this! There were some after-party celebrations to the bull market's one-year anniversary - but only just. Wall Street closed higher -- Dow up 0.03 per cent, S&P 500 up 0.5 per cent and Nasdaq up 0.8 per cent. As ...

Still a two-way street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
After all is said and done...more was said than done! Yes, you know what I'm referring to Virginia - the "big kahuna" of economic statistics that is the US non-farm payrolls report. Remember how we (note I use "we" when I'm mistaken and "I" to gloat ...