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Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
The Australian share market has opened lower following negative leads from Wall Street and fears the conflict in Ukraine is set to worsen. US stocks fell sharply overnight with investors also selling shares amid fears of a Wall Street correction. The ...

Tit-for-tats and all that jazz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... battalion-sized combat groups". Not that Putin ever went away since Crimea, the markets just chose to ignore him and his tats for the 'West' tits. Speaking of tit for tats, Reuters reports that "Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev threatened on Tuesday ...

Folkestone acquires land for planned community

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... developers who specialise in land sub-division and medium density development." Truganina is located approximately 20 kilometres west of the Melbourne CBD in Melbourne's Western Growth Corridor. "The Truganina Project provides exposure to the fast growing ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
The local sharemarket has opened flat ahead of the Reserve Bank's interest rate announcement and the full swing of earnings season. All 15 economists surveyed by AAP predict the RBA will leave the cash rate unchanged at 2.5 per cent on Tuesday. But ...

Chumbawamba rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... in 1994 with bouts of intermittent violence since then. So what? So what is it involves Putin and oil and energy and the "West's" investments in these countries. Bloomberg reports that Azerbaijan is "the former Soviet Union's third-largest oil producer ...

SFGA shareholders approve IOOF acquisition proposal

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
SFG Australia (SFGA) shareholders have voted in favour of IOOF's Scheme of Arrangement to acquire 100% of ordinary shares in SFGA. SFGA will now seek orders from the Federal Court of Australia for the approval of the Scheme at the second court hearing ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
Most sectors of the Australian share market have fallen following broad sell-offs on international markets during the offshore session. The Dow Jones tumbled almost two per cent to 16,563.30, Frankfurt's main DAX index dived 1.94 per cent to 9,407.48 ...

Not that time yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... but there'll still be bumps along the way. Here, Putin could be the biggest bump. An escalation of tensions between the 'West' versus Russia versus Ukraine could prompt Eurozone businesses to, as Markit Economics' put it, "become increasingly reluctant ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
The Australian share market is slightly lower, as investors digest the impact of Argentina's debt default and US and European Union sanctions against Russia. IG market strategist Stan Shamu said the market was relatively quiet as it tried to balance ...

Tax retirement earnings at flat 15%, says consultant

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... not allow members to invest in residential property at all. He also referred to collectibles investment as "one of the Wild West things that go on in SMSFs." However, he said the requirement for collectibles to be held in storage has put people off buying ...