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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
The Australian stock market is tipped to open higher after a mostly positive lead from Wall Street, with the focus for the week ahead expected to be on sales figures due from two major retailers. Both Woolworths Ltd and Coles owner Wesfarmers Ltd are ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
The Australian stock market has received a mostly positive set of leads from offshore, with Wall Street closing higher and oil prices settling firmer. But metals prices ended weaker. At 0733 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract ...

We shall overcome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... work and plutonium has been found in the soil." Tensions in the Middle East and North Africa lingers while NATO's doing a tour of Libya, bombing the bejeesus out of Qaddafi and his supporters. The European debt crisis is back. Last night, Standard & ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... Craig Mundie is scheduled to address the Committee for Economic Development in Australia. Myer CEO Bernie Brookes will host a tour of the new $300 million Myer Melbourne store. The first day of the Paydirt Gold Conference will commence in Perth. In the ...

Former MilitarySuper chief joins HOSTPLUS

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
HOSTPLUS sharpens focus on product and service development with the appointment of Paul Watson as executive manager, member and consumer choice. Watson is responsible for producing and implementing the $9 billion hospitality and tourism fund's strategic ...

Queen Qaddafi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... -- as sensationalised by many talking heads and those with literary licenses - the Jasmine Revolution currently doing its tour in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region would send oil prices soaring and derail the fledgling global recovery or ...

1989 redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... became a thing of the past as civil uprisings in one country emboldened protests in another... then another. Back then, the tour of people power started in Poland in the spring of 1989. This quickly spread in a matter of months - some even weeks - to ...

Asian funds invest more in Taiwan

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
Fund managers in Asia are predicting big things for Taiwan as improving relations with China look set to open the door to a wealth of investment opportunities. While concerns persist in Asian markets over rising inflation and central bank tightening ...

Growth spoiler

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2011
Be careful what you wish for. After many, many years of drought, Australia got what it wished for - the green lawn inducing, agriculture produce growing rain. Suddenly the rural sector was looking good. Harvest would be a-plenty. Not only would Australians ...

Hooray it's Oprah day

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
So much for Australia's vision of itself as a world financial centre as Oprah has shown that all the world wants from us is Kangaroos, Koalas, sunny beaches and iron ore. Or is that the wrong way to look at the frenzy now supposedly gripping the nation ...