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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open higher after commodity prices, including gold, oil and copper, gained overnight. At 0816 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December Share Price Index futures contract was up 41 points at 3,662. ...

Three rich beggars

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
'There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying into Washington D.C. and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands.' This was US Democratic representative Gary Ackerman's comments to the CEO's of the big three US carmakers ...

Social investment MIS targets community projects

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
Foresters Community Finance has created an investment product that allows people to invest in the non-profit and charity sectors and still draw competitive fixed interest type returns of five to six per cent. The Community Investment Fund operates like ...

New dynamics, new realities: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
Timor-Leste president and Nobel Peace laureate Dr Jose Ramos-Horta told delegates at the annual ASFA conference to prepare for the "new economic realities", where countries often overlooked in global policy-making such as Saudi Arabia, India and South ...

The other race

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
Punters would have been better off putting their hard-earned dollar into the Melbourne Cup winner - Viewed -- yesterday than on the RBA rate cut expecting an equity market gain. Both provided a surprise outcome, but while Viewed returned A$46.50 to ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2008
The Australian sharemarket was firmly in the red at noon, weighed down by mining stocks following largely softer metals prices overnight and a flat US lead. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 73.2 points, or 1.73 per cent, at 4,148.3 ...

Seesaw Margery Daw

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
'See Saw Margery Daw Johnny Wall Street shall have a new master He It shall earn but a penny a day Because he the Fed can't work any faster.' The market giveth and the market taketh away. Isn't it funny how yesterday's big rally on Wall Street was attributed ...

US Senate passes bail-out 74 to 25

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
The bail-out legislation has been overwhelmingly approved by the US Senate, but the bigger test will be the congressional vote tomorrow, which isn't expected to get such a smooth ride. This morning Australian time, the Senate voted in favour of the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... after the Bush administration's proposal for a $US700 billion banking bailout ran into opposition from Republican and Democrat congressmen alike. The Dow rose 121.07 points, or 1.10 per cent, to 11,143.13. But broader indicators were mixed. The Standard ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... after the Bush administration's proposal for a $US700 billion banking bailout ran into opposition from Republican and Democrat congressmen alike. Stocks ended mixed, with big financial companies lifting the Dow Jones Industrials index more than 120 points ...