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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
Australian stocks are likely to slump on Friday after equity markets in Europe and the US fell on concerns that the global economic recovery won't be as smooth as investors had been hoping. At 0820 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2010
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher after US and European stocks and commodity prices gained overnight. At 0650 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was 33 points higher at 4,876. In economics news ...

Bonds need a double dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
It cannot be denied that risk assets trounced defensive ones in 2009 - and by a long shot - as investor optimism surrounding the global recovery gathered pace. But as 2009 became 2010, investors seemed not too sure. Suddenly investors are not so sure ...

Good For China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
China is proving true to the words uttered by US President John F. Kennedy half a century earlier. In a speech in Indianapolis delivered on 12 April 1959, JFK said that, "When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents ...

Dubai games

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
Cheque's in the mail! This was what Abu Dhabi told Dubai's creditors after making them sweat for almost three weeks. Financial markets cheered. And to borrow Bloomberg's headline, "Stocks Rise, Default Swaps, Dollar Drop Following Dubai Bailout". Maybe ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
Australian shares are likely to open lower after commodity prices declined overnight, and concerns increase about the mounting levels of national debt overseas. At 0659 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was ...

Australians as Asians

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2009
So that's why the RBA raised interest rates...again! Australia is an Asian country.The Age reports that "a Lowy Institute poll of Chinese public opinion on world affairs, to be released today, shows Australia is accepted as an Asian nation, with an ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
The Australian sharemarket was up more than half of one per cent at noon, as gains in the mining and retail sectors offset weakness in some bank and energy stocks. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 35 points, or 0.75 per cent, at 4720.8 ...

AMP exec joins planning standards board

AMP ANNOUNCEMENT  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2009
The Australian financial planning industry gets a local representative in a global standards-setting body after Steve Helmich from AMP was selected to join the board of the Financial Planning Standards Board Ltd. (FPSB). Financial Planning Standards ...

AMP extends Super Easy to employer market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2009
AMP Financial Services is looking to boost its superannuation footprint, extending its Flexible Lifetime Super Easy product to the employer market. The AMP Flexible Lifetime Super Easy - Employer product is targeted at small to medium employers. The ...