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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher on Wednesday with Wall Street boosted by corporate takeover activity. At 0700 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was 27 points higher at 4,730. In economic ...

Legalsuper member contributions rise

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
Legalsuper has seen its voluntary member contributions increase by 6 per cent for the previous year - a stark contrast to APRA figures that show contributions plummeting almost 40 per cent across the industry over the same period. In total, legalsuper ...

La de da de da

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
"The beat goes on...la de da de da." (Cher) The beat of mixed data that is, but Wall Street is seeing the silver lining in the dark clouds this time. First stop and the most important for the US economy - the consumer. Their personal income rose by ...

ACCC sounds online fraud alarm

REGULATORY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
... scam reports were made to the ACCC in 2009 - a 16 per cent increase compared with 2008," Kell said. "Realistically, this figure is likely to be the tip of the iceberg - given people can be embarrassed about reporting that they have fallen victim to scams ...

Wall Street's $22bn bitter pill

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
New York City's securities employee bonuses rose 17 per cent to just over $22 billion last year bringing the payments back to pre-2005 levels, according to estimates from the US state's comptroller. Thomas DiNapoli, state comptroller at the office of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
... initial claims in the week ending February 20 rose to 496,000, an increase of 22,000 from from the previous week's revised figure of 474,000, the department said. Analysts said that if the jobs picture fails to improve, that could spell trouble for the ...

Longevity swaps to top £10bn

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010

Harvard puts property on sale

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
The $29 billion Harvard University endowment fund is looking to sell a slice of its $5 billion-plus real estate portfolio to lessen its exposure to embattled property markets. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the fund is looking to deploy ...

Positive spin to bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
Analyse this! US home sales tumble big time as Wall Street rises. Yes Virginia, the past two days of trading activity on The Street exemplifies the equity market's wild and wacky psychology -- that's if you're watching the daily ups and downs. Yesterday ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
The Australian share market was lower at noon on Wednesday as weaker base metals prices pulled back the resources sector. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 61.4 points weaker, by 1.3 per cent, at 4,656.9, while the broader All Ordinaries ...