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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 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... Standard & Poor's 500 index climbed 10.41 points to 1,461.40. The Nasdaq composite rose 14.23 points to 3,149.46. The Commerce Department said that orders to US factories came in better than forecasts, even though the 5.2 per cent drop in orders was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
... high, and were up 9.3 per cent from a year ago. Home builders in particular benefited from a separate report from the Commerce Department showing housing starts rose 2.3 per cent from July, including a 5.5 per cent jump in starts on single-family homes. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2012
... releases its full year results and Elders Ltd chief executive Malcolm Jackman is scheduled to speak at American Chamber of Commerce in Australia lunch in Melbourne. The local market on Tuesday closed slightly weaker, with investors consolidating recent ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... and waste management company Transpacific's chief executive Kevin Campbell is slated to speak at American Chamber of Commerce in Australia's lunch event in Sydney. In Australia, the market on Friday finished at a four-and-a-half-month high after the ...