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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... cent after May car sales jumped 13 per cent, while Ford Motor gained 0.7 per cent on a three per cent increase in sales. Apple, which is hosting its annual developer conference in San Francisco, jumped 1.4 per cent. LONDON - Europe's markets fell, but ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... Management, said the rally in technology stocks was a sign of improving sentiment. Leading tech companies to gain included Apple, up 1.9 per cent, Facebook, up 3.5 per cent, Priceline, up 5.2 per cent, and Tesla Motors, up 2.1 per cent. LONDON - Europe's ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... positive territory. Tech stocks led US markets higher overnight, helped by a truce in the smartphone patents battle between Apple and Google.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... with a 11.3 per cent drop. Also falling were online travel booker Priceline (-2.1 per cent), Facebook (-1.1 per cent) and Apple (-0.7 per cent). LONDON - Europe's main stock markets closed higher after European Central Bank president Mario Draghi hinted ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... 1,884.66, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index rose 14.16 (0.34 per cent) to 4,138.06. Boeing (+1.6 per cent) and Apple (+1.4 per cent) led gainers among the largest companies, while Pfizer fell 2.6 per cent on some disappointing signals in quarterly ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... low inflation data prompted a rally. US markets were weaker overnight but upbeat quarterly earnings reports released by Apple and Facebook after the close of trade sparked rises in futures markets. IG market strategist Stan Shamu said investors were ...

Banks eye Google Glass as tech opportunity

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... of smartphones," Pocketbook chief executive Alvin Singh said. Singh said that only three of the top ten banking apps on Apple Store rate above four stars and none of them belong to any of Australia's Big Four banks.

Annual global dividends pass $1 trillion for first time

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... fastest growth in payout has come from the technology sector, more than doubling since 2009 (+109%) thanks in particular to Apple, which paid almost one sixth of global tech dividends last year from a standing start in 2012. For dividends technology ...

ASIC could implement immediate suspension of advisers

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) could implement the immediate suspension of "bad-apple" advisers if it had powers to do it. ASIC senior leaders were asked about this issue during yesterday's public hearing of the Senate Economics ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
... flat despite a positive lead from Wall Street which withstood a poor durable goods report and a disappointing outlook from Apple that pushed the Nasdaq into the red. At 0820 AEDT on Wednesday, the March share price index futures contract was up two points ...