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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
The Australian share market is likely to open slightly lower as Wall Street ended flat amid weaker sentiment and profit-taking. At 0753 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 10 points lower at 4421. In economic ...

Bookmakers Super hit by liquidity issues

COMPANY RELEASES  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2009
Bookmakers Superannuation Fund has applied to the regulator to defer redemptions across its balanced investment strategies for a rolling 90-day period due to liquidity issues. The super fund's trustee, Equity Trustees, in working with the administrator ...

Macquarie eyes Middle East with JV

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2009
Macquarie is looking to deepen its Middle Eastern footprint by entering a joint venture with Gulf Finance House, an investment bank led by former NAB chief, Ahmed Fahour. Gulf Finance House announced two days ago that it intended to establish a joint ...

Firm hails the next emerging market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
Looking for the next investment trend? Eastern Europe could be the answer, with one asset manager's flagship fund returning more than 20 per cent annualised since inception. Michael Hanson-Lawson, chief executive at East Capital Asia, said while a long-term ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
The Australian share market is likely to open slightly weaker as Wall Street investors took stock after four consecutive days of gains. At 0734 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 22 points lower at 4397. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after Wall Street soared to its highest point this year on Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke's comments that global recovery prospects appear good. At 0749 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Premium shareholders approve program

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2009
Premium Investors' shareholders have voted in favour of the board's proposed capital management program. Shareholders voted on three resolutions at a general meeting yesterday. The first resolution included an immediate off-market equal access buy-back ...

Fear not a rate rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
... the second quarter - explains the good company reporting season. And lastly, annual CPI inflation fell by 2.1 per cent in July - the fifth consecutive month of deflation. But the core rate increased by 1.5 per cent - just right for the Fed's liking. ...

It's coming true

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
"Such a feelin's comin over me There is wonder in most everything I see Not a cloud in the sky Got the sun in my eyes" (Carpenters) Wall Street snubbed what was broadly a bad news day and instead merrily hummed, "Everything I want the world to be, is ...

FOS insurance ombudsman resigns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is close to naming a new general insurance ombudsman after Sam Parrino resigned from the service. Parrino was named ombudsman - general insurance when FOS in July last year. Prior to joining FOS, Parrino worked ...