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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open flat on Monday, led by losses on Wall Street and after a week of strong gains in most major markets. The Gold miners may gain after the price of the precious metal jumped while energy stocks may slump ...

Hermaphrodite economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2009
... testosterone pumping across the Atlantic. Halifax reported that UK average house prices rose by 0.8 per cent to 160,793 in August - the second consecutive month of gains. And like Semenya, markets find that the global recovery have no ovaries. According ...

Martin Currie hires BDM for Asia

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2009
Martin Currie Investment Management hired former Vanguard Investments institutional business development executive, Ee Fang Chen, as business development director for Asia. Ee Fang was responsible for China, Taiwan and Hong Kong institutional business ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open moderately positive on Thursday after gains on Wall Street and European markets. At 0747 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 31 points higher at 4557. In economic ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open the day higher after gains on European and Asian markets. The US stock market was closed for the Labor Day public holiday. At 0737 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
The Australian share market is likely to open in positive territory on Monday after a gains on Wall Street and world markets on Friday. At 0717 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 38 points higher at 4465. ...

Asian equities approach fair value

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
Financial planners may want to reassess their clients allocation to Asia's emerging markets as one investment specialist reckons Asian equities are no longer cheap. Stuart James, senior investment specialist at Aberdeen Asset Management, said Asia's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
The Australian share market is likely to open higher after US stocks and metals prices gained overnight. At 0724 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 28 points higher at 4460. In economic news on Friday ...

The Venus solution

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
Like everywhere else around the globe, Japan's equity markets have rebounded from the extreme pessimism that marked the low point of the global financial crisis back in March 2009. At the end of August, the Nikkei-225 index has risen by 48.7 per cent ...

MAP Super seeks alternatives, hires Bennelong

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
MAP Super is boosting its diversification strategy by tapping alternatives such as private equity and hedge funds, and has hired Bennelong Funds Management as a new investment manager. According to an August update of the fund, MAP Super is increasing ...