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Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
... Activity is due out. In equities news, Suncorp Group, APA Group, Boral, Seven West Media, AGL Energy, Asciano, BHP Billiton, Country Road and Noni B are among companies due to post full year results while Woodside Petroleum, Coca Cola Amatil and Super ...

Invesco expands local real estate presence

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... responsibility for identifying investment opportunities and managing all Invesco direct real estate investments across the country. In addition, he will assist in the firms capital raising and client relationships activities in Australia at the senior ...

Bad news sells

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... that Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, is plans to build a spaceship headed for Mars (amid slowing growth in his country) is interesting news too, it isn't that - but something closer to earth. It's news that's right here at home: The Westpac/Melbourne ...

ASX flags concerns over losing single operator status

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
... Securities Exchange raises a red flag over any loss of its current monopoly on clearing and settlement - claiming the country's financial market stability might be at risk. Up until now the ASX have been the single operator of clearing and settlement ...

Sun setting on the Land of the Rising Sun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
... 1,404.11, while the tech-rich Nasdaq was up 1.66 points (0.05 per cent) to 3,022.52. Earlier, the Japanese government said the country's April-June gross domestic product (GDP) grew 0.3 per cent from the previous quarter, sharply weaker than market expectations ...

Doing our bit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... for cheapened goods and services from weak nations. This, in turn, slows economic activity (and inflation) in the strong country and helps strengthen those in the weaker ones, and continue until equilibrium is restored. Australians all let us rejoice... ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... amid disappointing data, while Paris's CAC 40 gave up 0.43 per cent to 3,438.26 amid a forecast from the central bank the country would likely enter a recession. Madrid shed 0.84 per cent, as Milan gained 0.07 per cent. The European euro dipped to $US1.2373 ...

Blahs take the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... economy contracted for the fourth consecutive quarter in June or how bad the Spanish property market has become that the country's biggest real estate website idealista.com has now resorted to sex ads to sell property. Yes the bad news are still with ...

Maybe next month

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2012
... Italian banks, citing worries that the recession in the euro zone's third-largest economy could mean mounting losses for the country's lenders" (AFR) failed to dampen the markets' mood. Or is this another hit to credit raters' credibility? S&P cut Monte ...