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Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2006
... week high and adding 109 points over the week. NEW YORK - US stocks slipped on Friday after weaker-than-expected data on Chicago-area manufacturing stirred concerns about the economy and offset fresh hopes for a faster turnaround at General Motors Corp. ...

Macquarie CountryWide Trust promotes a new CEO

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2006
... benefit from her experience. Current head of real estate, North America and Europe, Mark Baillie will be moving from his Chicago base to London in order to focus on European expansion, while still overseeing the US business. The ASX listed Macquarie ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2006
... Bernanke also helped ease market anxiety over the country's growth outlook. In his speech before the Economic Club of Chicago, Mr. Bernanke said that although 'a significant increase in energy prices can simultaneously slow economic growth while raising ...

Super funds keep tills ringing at Harris Alternatives

... alternative investment strategy after losing money in equities during the '87 crash. The move proved highly successful with the Chicago-based firm returning an average annualised return of 11.74 per cent, net of all fees, since 1988. By comparison, the ...

Macquarie launches global infrastructure fund

... invested in the Birmingham Airport, Bristol Airport and South East Water. In the US, it has stakes in Atlantic Aviation, Chicago Skyway and the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel. As Macquarie International's portfolio manager Jon Fitch says, "We will be looking ...

UBS International Equity Fund scores an A

... through UBS's offices around the world. It has an eight-member portfolio management team spread across the company's London, Chicago and Zurich bureaus. 87 equity analysts averaging over 19 years of investment management experience support the portfolio ...

Acquisition sparks new name and division for CDC IXIS

... Aurora II Australia Fund that invests into the multi strategy Fund of Hedged Finds product managed by Harris Alternative in Chicago. The new structure has necessitated two new company appointments. Former Avsuper CEO Dennis Carroll has been nominated ...

MIG announces winning bid for Chicago Skyway toll bridge

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2004
Macquarie Infrastructure Group today confirmed it had been selected as preferred bidder for 100 per cent of the Chicago Skyway toll bridge concession. The consortium offered the city of Chicago a total purchase price of $US1.82 billion, or $A2.5 billion ...

Greeenspan says US businesses, consumers able to handle rate rise

... meeting of the central bank. The impact should not be too much of a shock, the influential Federal Reserve boss told a Chicago banking conference via satellite from here, stepping up a campaign to prepare markets for the switch. The sizzling housing ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2004
... United States dollar dropped against the euro and the yen following a disappointing report on regional manufacturing in the Chicago area. At 0700 AEST the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.7665/70 compared with yesterday's close of 0.7594/99. It ...