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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... Bank posts full year results and Challenger managing director Brian Benari is due to address the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia lunch on From Boomer to Busted: Will Longer Life Expectancies Finish What the GFC Started. Country Road, JB HiFi ...

Sandy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... contribution to growth. This looks achievable especially if the latest uptrend in US consumer spending continues. The US Commerce Department reports that household expenditure - that which accounts for 70% of the economy - rose by 0.8% in September following ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... annual general meetings. Bunnings managing director John Gillam is scheduled to deliver a speech at an American Chamber of Commerce in Australia lunch in Sydney. The market on Monday closed a touch higher. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index added 4.5 points ...

Not long now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
Australia's trading session had already called it off for the week when the US Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released the better-than-expected scorecard for the economy. But don't despair Virginia, we didn't miss much. Better ...

Quality could replace China volume-play

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... government now sees a need to foster small and medium size start ups, said Frank Jiang, vice director of the Taicang Bureau of Commerce and Investments. Often these are companies big on intellectual property and technology, but small enough that labour ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
... Directors lunch in Sydney, head of BP Australasia Paul Waterman is due to speak at the Australian British Chamber of Commerce lunch in Melbourne and former BHP chairman Don Argus is scheduled to speak at a QUT Business School function. Virgin CEO John ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
... Petroleum its third quarter report. QR National chief executive Lance Hockridge is slated to address the American Chamber of Commerce in Sydney while Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce is scheduled to speak to the Australian Institute of Company Directors. ...

Market wrap late PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
... Street, which in turn helped the Australian equities market open stronger. The positive result from the US Department of Commerce helped the Dow Jones Industrial Average climb 95.38 points, or 0.72 per cent, to finish at 13,424.23. Meanwhile, the broad-based ...

Jingling bells

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
... 1.1% in September following an equally strong 1.2% gain in the previous month (revised from up 0.9%). According to the Commerce Department report, electronics and appliance stores (up 4.5%) contributed to last month's increase in spending, yes, that ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... annual general meeting in Sydney and ExxonMobile chairman John Dashwood is scheduled to speak at a American Chamber of Commerce lunch in Melbourne. In Australia, the market on Wednesday closed lower as investors took profits after the market on Tuesday ...