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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013
The Australian market looks set to open flat after international markets retreated after downward revisions of eurozone growth and unemployment. At 0826 AEDT on Wednesday, the December share price index futures contract was down five points at 5,412. ...

Fund returns dip to 15pct

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013
The SelectingSuper Workplace rolling 12 month default option index dipped during September, but at 15.1% for the year ended 30 September 2013 they are still at near three year highs. Rainmaker, the researcher that conducts surveys of fund performance ...

Facebook turns on profits as teenagers turn off

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013
Amid strong profit results for Facebook, analysts are zeroing in on the falling usage from teenagers - pointing to long term implications for corporations that have a singular social media strategy. Facebook declared a 60% jump in September profits ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on Wall Street after solid US and Chinese manufacturing data and good US car sales figures. At 0818 AEDT on Monday, the December share price index futures contract was up 24 points at 5,414. ...

Macquarie posts solid half-year result

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
Macquarie Group's profits have jumped 39% year-on-year for the half year to 30 September 2013. Net profit after tax attributable to ordinary shareholders was $501 million for the period, up 2% on the half year ended 31 March 2013. Macquarie Group managing ...

Trick or treat?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
... to just around 143,000 heads in September. So too is inflation. Headline consumer price inflation slowed to 1.2% in September - the slowest since April - from 1.5% in the previous month. So too is core inflation. It eased to 1.7% from 1.8% in August. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
The Australian market looks set to open flat following falls on Wall Street and most European bourses after eurozone employment figures failed to impress. At 0824 AEDT on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was up three points at ...

CareSuper reviews custody contract with NAB

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2013
CareSuper is taking its custody contract to market as part of a review of its current custody arrangements with NAB Asset Servicing (NAS). Drew Vaughan from professional services firm Dymond, Foulds & Vaughan will assist CareSuper with the review and ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2013
The Australian market looks set to open lower following Wall Street's negative lead after the Federal Reserve said the US economy was growing only moderately and still needed support. At 0820 AEDT on Thursday, the December share price index futures ...

CBA could face legal action over Operation Lantern

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013
The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) may have broken the law when commissioning a security firm to conduct Operation Lantern, a surveillance operation on anti-banking lobbyist Michael Fraser. Fraser was followed and photographed by private investigators from ...