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Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
... rose eight cents to $7.97. Qantas added 16 cents, or 5.7 per cent, to $2.97 after the airline bounced back from last year's heavy losses, posting a net profit of $203 million and beating its own forecasts. Nine Entertainment added 21.5 cents or 11.6 ...

Investor sentiment shifting overseas

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... digitisation that challenges business models and slows their revenue growth. Australia is especially vulnerable due to its heavy reliance on the financial sector. "Financials being 40% of the Australian equity market mean that if that sector comes under ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
The Australian share market is pushing higher after market heavyweight BHP Billiton increased its dividend and announced fresh cost cutting. On a busy day of corporate earnings reports, BHP Billiton had the healthiest market reaction, with shares up ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015
The sharemarket is lower after disappointing results from CSL and Suncorp Group sent their stocks dipping, while falling oil prices dented the energy sector. Shares in market heavyweight, the Commonwealth Bank also fell despite it announcing a recorded ...

Retail investor confidence in domestic market low

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... confidence in the domestic economy, portfolios lack diversification geographically and by asset class, with a particularly heavy bias towards Australian equities and low exposure to fixed interest and there are no signs that investment behaviour is likely ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... - Asian stock markets ended mostly higher after reversing earlier losses, although dealers remained nervous following a heavy sell-off in New York sparked by poor earnings reports. Tokyo gained 0.15 per cent, or 27.43 points, to 17,795.73, Sydney added ...

APRA relaxes 'select' option data rules

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
... APRA's earlier proposals for this data were resisted by the super fund industry because they believed it imposed excessively heavy compliance and systems costs on funds. While the regulator itself has also declared it's having its own technology and ...

Royal commission must look at 'full picture': TWUSUPER CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
... with a median age of 30," he said. "TWUSUPER, on the other hand, is 95% male and has a median age between 40 and 50. It's a heavy blue collar industry with members from probably a low socio-economic group. So how do we make sure that these people have ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
... 44,000 jobs and brought the yearly average to 241,000 a month. LONDON - European stock markets rebounded strongly following heavy losses the previous day, buoyed by a surge in US jobs underlining a firm recovery in the world's biggest economy. Frankfurt's ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
The Australian share market has reversed some of its heavy losses after a strong bounce in oil and gold prices. The share market dumped two per cent on Monday as energy stocks tumbled in the wake of the lowest crude oil prices since 2009. Crude prices ...