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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
... autos, heavy machinery and military aircraft rose. Analysts had expected an increase of 0.8 per cent, according to Thomson Reuters. At settlement, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was 17.53 points lower, by 0.18 per cent, at 9,772.91. The tech-heavy ...

Trick or treat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
... month's fall represents the sharpest decline in nine months. And the outlook for our MVP does not look good either. The Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index fell to 70.6 in October from 73.5 in September. Again, the stats were in line ...

Pushing on a string

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
... drop in the mood of consumers fanned concerns that people nervous about jobs and the economy will hold off spending. The Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index fell to 69.4 in a preliminary reading for October from 73.5 in September. ...

New tax code to drive Indian reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
... the Direct Tax Code, will be a significant enhancement over India's current tax laws which are seen as archaic, reported Reuters. The complexity of tax laws in India is a major reason why the emerging world power is hampered by excessive tax-based litigations ...

The Venus solution

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
... Japan could get a helping hand from an unlikely source. The PM-elect could harness his wife's "extra-terrestrial" clout. Reuters reported that in her book titled "Very Strange Things I've Encountered," First Lady in waiting Miyuki Hatoyama wrote that ...

Local funds won't follow CalPERS lawsuit

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
... were a result of inaccurate credit ratings from Moody's, Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor's, according to a report by Reuters. CalPERS said the "top" ratings on highly structured investment vehicles and complex packages of securities including subprime ...

The times they are a'changin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... appears, was more sinister than just investors' impatience - the green shoots look like they're wilting. The preliminary Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index declined to 64.6 in July - worse than market expectations for a reading of ...

Soc Gén named best SRI brokerage firm: survey

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2009
... the list of broker firms for the work on socially responsible investment and sustainability research. The annual Thomson Reuters Extel Survey, which polled more than 1,400 fund managers, found SociA(C)tA(C) GA(C)nA(C)rale received more than 18 per cent ...

Black or white - just beat it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
... Americans are spending on durables (up 0.8 per cent) such as cars - a behaviour consistent with rising confidence. The final Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment was revised to a gain of 70.8 in June from the preliminary reading of 69.0 ...