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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... points, or 0.045 per cent, at 4,420. NEW YORK - US stocks recovered from early weakness to end mostly in the black, although Apple, hit by new reports of labour abuses in its China suppliers, pulled the Nasdaq into a loss in the last half hour. On the ...

Wobble gobbles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012
... Wall Street's performance over the past four days of this week. It started out good enough with an up Monday, cheered by Apple's dividend and buyback announcement. But that was about it. Tuesday was down because of China concerns. Wednesday was down ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2012
... with 8,267 contracts traded. Markets on Wall Street extended last week's gains to close at fresh multi-year highs, with Apple surprising investors by announcing it will return around $US45 billion ($A42.56 billion) to shareholders through dividends and ...

Australia's Apple

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2012
Apple today convinced investors to stay. This was the general thrust on the why's and wherefore's of Wall Street's good performance overnight. Apple CEO Tim Cook didn't launch yet another iTech innovation, but his announcement made investors happy all ...

Financial Standard launches SelectingSuper iPad app

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2012
... savings." The app is available for free from the App store. Look under "SelectingSuper" or click this link http://itunes.apple.com/wa/app/selectingsuper/id503456058?ls=1&mt=8

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2012
... from investments it made in mortgage-backed securities during the height of the financial crisis in 2008-2009. NEW YORK - Apple has announced it will spend part of its massive cash hoard to pay its first dividend since 1995 to shareholders and buy back ...

ASIC to take hard line on deliberately misleading ads

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
ASIC is set to clamp down on misleading advertisments for financial products and services as part of its continued shake up of the financial services system. New guidelines released by ASIC commissioner Peter Kell emphasised the need for promoters to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
... antitrust watchdog has approved Google's $US12.5 billion ($A11.7 billion) takeover of mobile phone maker Motorola. NEW YORK - Apple says an independent group, the Fair Labor Association, has started inspecting the working conditions in the Chinese factories ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
Australian shares climb after market-beating results from Apple helped bourses shrug off growing concerns that Greece may default on its debt. European and Wall Street fell overnight after eurozone officials rejected a final offer from the Greece's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2011
... Wednesday after the Federal Reserve's "Beige Book" portrayed a still-weak economy in September, as big losses from tech stars Apple and Amazon pulled the Nasdaq down more than 2.0 per cent. Reports of ongoing discord over the coming comprehensive rescue ...