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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2012
The Australian sharemarket was more than 1% higher at noon following gains on US and European markets and strong performances from resource and energy stocks. At 1200 AEST on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 52.8 points, or 1.29 per cent ...

Can this latest kick of the can can?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2012
Spectacularly fantabolous! This was the financial markets' reaction to Europe's kinder surprise on the last day of the last trading week of the last month of the second quarter. Wall Street gained big time - the Dow ended 2.2% up, the S&P 500 closed ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2012
US stocks leapt two per cent on Friday sparked by the dramatic measures adopted in Brussels to stem the eurozone crisis and stimulate growth, giving the markets a strong end to a rocky first half. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 277.83 points ...

Sequencing risk impacts super savings

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
... of those who have retired over the past few years, or are planning to retire soon, have found themselves caught between a rock and a hard place," said Padowitz adding that retiree's savings have been severely depleted by the market downturn at a time ...

CSIRO questions Aus economy after the boom ends

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
A CSIRO researcher has questioned where Australia's economic output will come from once the commodities boom ends. "We are a highly exposed market because three things that we make, make up 40% of our exports," said Dr Stefan Hajkowicz, principal scientist ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2012
... bounced around from negative to positive at the open before resources and financial stocks pulled the market higher. "It was a rock and roll night in the USA and the market feels a bit cheated that the G8 sumit didn't produce more," Mr Bishop said. "I'd ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower following on from last week's falls across major bourses with investors concerned over the euro zone and sentiment rocked by a ratings downgrade for Greece and 16 Spanish banks. At 0850 AEST on Monday, the ...

The end is not nigh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
My, my, hey, hey, rock n' roll is here to stay - or in our case Europe's sovereign debt, fiscal deficit, financial, banking, economic, political and social crisis. You name the crisis. One or more members of the Eurozone's got one, or more, or all of ...

Can't lose

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
Uh-oh. Here's looking at you kid, and kid you're not looking good. A weaker-than-expected US non-farm payrolls report released during the Easter break punctuated a week of not so good news for the equity markets, re-igniting the uncertainty over America's ...

FICAP's Wannabe Rockstars a huge hit

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2012
Ten of the finance industry's Wannabe Rockstars battled it out this week in FICAP's annual "Who wants to be a RockStar?" event at Sydney's iconic Metro Theatre. The award for FICAP 2012 RockStar of the Year went to Jamie Thomas from ANZ, with a rendition ...