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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
The Australian share market reversed course in morning trade, falling off session highs to follow a negative US lead as selling pressure hit energy, materials and banking stocks. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 37.1 points, or ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
The Australian market has received mixed to negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with Wall St closing lower in a late drop just before the markets closed. At 0726 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was flat at ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
Disappointing US jobs data and lower base metals prices dragged the Australian share market lower in opening trade, with all sectors of the local market losing ground. At 1013 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 20.5 points lower at 4562.6, while ...

U-G-L-Y

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
Let's cut to the chase and get straight to the point - the US employment report most of us have waited for all week was plain and simply U-G-L-Y ugly. There's no ifs, no ands and definitely no buts. Ugly, ugly, ugly. That's just what it is! Although ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
The bad news is set to continue for Australian shareholders on Monday, with the share market tipped to fall following heavy losses in the US on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is in the midst of its longest streak of losses since 2004, following ...

Convince me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011
Rolling, rolling, rolling. The bad news continue to roll - or rather people have convinced themselves, and others, that it's a bad, bad world out there and getting 'badder.' Pastor "prophet of the real doom" Camping's "rapture" might be coming sooner ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
The Australian securities market has opened more than 1.5 per cent lower after gains were wiped off US markets overnight. At 1015 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 84.9 points, or 1.8 per cent, at 4,622.4, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Provident Capital offers new fixed-rate units

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
Finance group Provident Capital has released a new fixed rate unit option in their Provident Capital Monthly Income Fund. Alex Francois, head of distribution - investments for Provident, said investors were looking for stability and reliability balanced ...

It's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
Houston, it seems we've lost May. With two trading days to go this month - one for Wall Street because of the Memorial Day holiday in the US - "sell in May then go away" is in the bag - unless of course, there's a sudden whiff of euphoria, or perhaps ...

Bentham wins $350 million mandate

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
Specialist global credit investment managers Bentham Asset Management have won a major new mandate from AustralianSuper worth $350 million. The segregated global loan mandate, issued in the March quarter, will increase Bentham's funds under management ...