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FuturePlus operations head in shock exit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2010
... have its monthly board meeting this month - its first board meeting since the early reports broke over Christmas and the new year. Also later this month, FuturePlus will hold its board meeting, which is when the petition to remove Powis from his job ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2010
... for the President's Day public holiday. "It's relatively quiet and will be around Asia, as well, because it's Chinese New Year," Mr Foulsham said. "The big miners are lower after a nice little run up last week, which was the best performing week for ...

Love thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2010
Chinese New Year. Valentine's Day. They fell on the same day this year. The Chinese all around the world and lovers of all nationalities were torn about which day to celebrate. Easy for the Chinese -- the celebration of the "Year of the Tiger" takes ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... was $HK59.62 billion ($A8.74 billion). Market-watchers expected the market to move in a tight range ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday that begins on Saturday. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket closed marginally higher. The benchmark NZX-50 index ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... was $HK59.63 billion ($A8.79 billion). Investors in Hong Kong and on the mainland remained cautious ahead of the Lunar New Year break and China's January inflation data scheduled to be issued later this week. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand share market ...

Gold's dimming lustre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
Gold's spectacular run in 2009 appears to have run out of puff this early in the New Year. The yellow metal produced a hefty 27.1 per cent return last year as prices jumped from US$862.20 per ounce in January 2009 to a high of US$1,212.00 an ounce on ...

Greek tragedy overwhelms Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... allow me to quote President Obama. "We have finished a difficult year. We have come through a difficult decade. But a new year has come. A new decade stretches before us. We don't quit. I don't quit."

Now that's challenging

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
... command economy is commanding its businesses to slow down on lending. Who do they turn to now? But like I said early in the New Year, what China wants, China gets. And it wants 10 per cent growth this year. This rate should still be sufficient to underwrite ...

Macquarie wins mandate from Mexico

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2010
Macquarie Group is eyeing Mexican infrastructure this new year, following the launch of a new infrastructure fund and winning $294 million in mandates from seven Mexican pension funds. In a press statement released late last week, Macquarie announced ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
... Index, which covers both A and B shares, was up 12.95 points at 3,237.10. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket's New Year rally took another knock following a weak United States performance on Friday and ahead of some key economic data in New Zealand ...