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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
The Australian stock market had continued its bloodletting at noon, falling more than two per cent in response to more heavy falls on Wall Street overnight and investor uncertainty over a possible global economic meltdown. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark ...

MFS director waves goodbye

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
Investors of property and tourism investment company MFS may be nervously waiting the decision on City Pacific's $830 million offer for the firm's funds management business, but one of the firm's non-executive director, Michael Hiscock, won't be staying ...

City Pacific to buy MFS

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
Financial services provider, City Pacific has placed a $1.33 billion offer for funds management and advisory provider, MFS Limited. The offer includes the issue of 225 million new shares to MFS shareholders, assuming each share City Pacific receives ...

A tale of two currencies

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2007
Despite China's strong influence, Australia's currency if not our economy still seems joined at the hip with the US, and the latest Federal Reserve rate cut can be expected to have a substantial knock on effect at home. Not all Federal Reserve board ...

FPA offers free advice to farmers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
Drought stricken farmers and companies have the opportunity to receive free financial planning advice through the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) program being trialled in the southwest NSW region of Sunraysia. The FPA approached the ...

Goldman Sachs appoints senior investment manager

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
Goldman Sachs JBWere Asset Management (GSJBWAM) has appointed former AMP Capital executive Matthew Rey as senior investment manager of their Australian equities team. Rey was previously portfolio manager for AMP Capital's $2.5 billion Sustainable Future ...

Singapore's wealthy to defy global downturn

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2007
Singapore's fund managers could be in for a battle for new money as the country's focus on exports, international trade and tourism will help it ride out a predicted global economic downturn from 2008-09 and increase the number of wealthy individuals ...

Australia as Asian hub a pipe dream

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2007
... a reality check, according to FTSE's Asia Pacific managing director Paul Hoff. Speaking during a whistlestop promotional tour, Hoff, a thirty-year Asia region veteran, said Australia had to compete with markets such as Hong Kong and Singapore, and the ...

Economic round up: weather winners and losers

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2007
While recent downpours have seen Australian farm-export earnings forecasts raised by $900 million, storms have not been so kind to coal exporters, or to major commercial energy users who almost ran out of gas last week. It seems that Mother Nature has ...

Get outta town

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2007
Tourism in New South Wales's is set to receive a government-sponsored boost in September as Sydney residents are given the big heave-ho. The APEC summit of world leaders, to be held from 7-9 September, is expected to cause traffic and transport chaos ...