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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
The Australian market has received strongly negative leads from offshore trading overnight. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0657 AEDT, the December share price index futures contract was 37 points lower at 4,632 points. In economic news on Wednesday ...

Challenger buoyed by annuities, boutiques

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
The guaranteed income streams provided by annuities continue to prove popular with Australian retirees post GFC, with Challenger Financial Services posting another record quarter for its annuities' business. In figures released yesterday, Challenger ...

QE2 or bust

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
You can almost hear the Wall Street's collective hallelujahs after the US Federal Reserve reported an unexpected fall in industrial production. And no, that is not a typo. Wall Street was actually happy that it was disappointed. Huh? Yes, you read correctly. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
The Australian market has received positive leads from offshore trade overnight, with European and US markets higher, including equities and commodities. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0713 AEDT, the December share price index futures contract was ...

Be wary of lowball offer: AUI

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has written to retail and wholesale investors advising them to be wary of an offer from Direct Share Purchasing Corporation (DSC) to purchase units in the Australian Unity Mortgage Income Trust. The DSC offer is 80 ...

OneVue on global path with managed accounts

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
Managed accounts specialist OneVue is looking to expand its business offshore following a raft of client wins from both fund managers and financial advisers in the past 12 months. OneVue Limited was formed in September 2008 after three businesses namely ...

Fed bearing gift of QE2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... the world's quest for a sustainable recovery. A separate report showed that Chinese exports rose to US$145 billion in September - the second highest on record. Did I just hear US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner cursed the undervalued yuan? There goes ...

QE2 to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
QE2: Coming soon to a theatre near you! Faster than fiscal spending, more powerful than QE1, able to lift employment and prevent deflation in a single bound! Look up in the sky...it's QE2! Wall Street is abuzz with speculation that the Fed would very ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
The Australian market is receiving generally positive leads from offshore trading overnight. European market indices were slightly lower, but Wall St bounced back in late trading following indications from the US Federal Reserve that it was preparing ...

Bad news is good news is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
... weekend reading probably know what I'm going to write about. Yes, it's the US private non-farm payrolls report for September - the one that shows that jobs in America are still hard to come by. Overall non-farm payrolls dropped by 95,000 in the month ...