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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
... price index contract was 211 points higher at 5325. Bell Potter senior advisor Stuart Smith said the positive close in New York and the perception that Australia is at the top of the interest rate cycle as the economy shows signs of slowing had helped ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
... The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index slid 46.2 points to 5134.2 while the broader All Ordinaries lost 64.6 points to 5211.1. NEW YORK - US stocks surged 3.55 per cent, led by financials, after the Federal Reserve said it would inject up to $US200 billion into ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
... or 1.74 per cent, to 5,275.7 points, its lowest close since January 22 this year, after losing $21.9 billion in value. NEW YORK - US stocks fell 1.3 per cent as investors sold financials, fearing more sub-prime related write-downs, and manufacturers ...

CalPERS pumps cash into fund-of-funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... emerging fund-of-funds manager who will allocate CalPERS' initial $161.3 million investment among seven emerging managers. New York-based Quotient Investors is a new quantitative equity management firm specialising in industry-specific alpha modeling. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... S&P/ASX200 index fell 171.5 points, or 3.16 per cent, to 5264 and the broader All Ordinaries lost 163 points to 5368.9. NEW YORK - US stocks fell 1.2 per cent on Friday after worse than expected jobs data supported fears that the world's biggest economy ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
... benchmark S&P/ASX200 index rose 58.9 points to 5435.5, while the broader All Ordinaries gained 60.3 points to 5531.9. NEW YORK - US stocks tumbled on Thursday after a series of fresh jolts to credit markets and lacklustre retail sales compounded worries ...

Australia dubbed the educational hub

... Sydney alone now employs half the number of financial services employees as London ad close to 40 per cent the size of New York. "The rapid expansion of the financial services sector, product complexity and globalisation have placed increasing demands ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
... benchmark S&P/ASX200 index ended 3.7 points lower at 5376.6, while the broader All Ordinaries was down 7.6 points at 5471.6. NEW YORK - The Dow turned negative but the S&P 500 index traded up marginally as a decline in bank stocks, including Bank of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
... 0.47 per cent, to 5380.3 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index lost 31.5 points, or 0.57 per cent, to 5479.2. NEW YORK - US stocks dropped more than one per cent on Tuesday as concerns about further losses at Citigroup weighed on the financial ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
... quarter, and retail trade figures for January. The ABS also releases government finance estimates for the December quarter. NEW YORK - US stocks were little changed overnight with crude oil prices offsetting fallout from the housing market that weighed ...