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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2011
... edging up 4.05 points, to 17,711.06. But Shanghai lost 0.61 per cent, or 14.42 points, to close at 2,344.79 in the first trading day after the week-long Golden Week holiday. Tokyo and Taipei were closed for public holidays. WELLINGTON - Wellington closed ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011
... seven cents to $7.75, and Brambles Ltd lost one cent to $6.70. Fairfax Media was among the weakest on the same index, trading half a cent down to 89 cents, after saying it had agreed to sell its regional radio assets to Grant Broadcasters. Qantas rose ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011
... after a credit downgrade for Italy and Spain dampened market optimism. At 0700 AEDT on Monday, the Australian dollar was trading at 97.39 US cents, down from 97.75 cents on Friday. Since 1700 AEDT on Friday, the local unit traded between 97.34 US cents ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
... Ordinaries index gained 78.6 points, or 1.9 per cent, to 4,210.7. Macquarie Private Wealth division director Lucinda Chan said trading volumes were average, and likely to end on par with Thursday, when the market leapt the most in almost three years. ...

Action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
... such a bearish scenario anything mildly positive (can push the market significantly higher)," he said. Mr McCarthy said trading volumes were average, with a turnover of 895.29 million shares worth $2.12 billion. But, he said, there were more solid volumes ...

Fine wine broker launches in Australia

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
... example." The launch of The London International Vintners Exchange (Liv-ex) in 1999 brought transparency to wine investing and trading where investors can access two wine price indices based on these transactions, typically used to measure general price ...

PIMCO appoints new vice president

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
PIMCO Australia has named Adam Bowe as the new senior vice president for fixed income portfolio management and trading in Sydney. The former director of fixed income portfolio management at UBS Global Asset Management takes up the position at the end ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
The Australian market has opened higher following a dramatic turnaround on Wall Street in the final 15 minutes of trading. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index is up 66.6 points, or 1.7 per cent, at 3,938.7 and the broader All Ordinaries index is 65.1 points ...

Ben calls on JMK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
Jumpy! This is the word that came to mind when I was watching last night's trading action in the financial markets. Is it only me or has anybody else noticed that the "bounce around" in share prices have been shortening lately? It used to be a matter ...