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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
The Australian share market has received mixed leads from overseas, with Wall Street securities and copper closing down on Friday, while precious metals up and oil were higher. At 0717 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher on Friday, with Wall Street again gaining ground amid banking sector corporate results and positive economic data. At 0725 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
The Australian sharemarket rallied to a one-year high in intra-day trading on Thursday, boosted by a strong offshore lead which lifted the local banking sector. By 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 51.3 points, or 1.06 per cent, at 4,882.4 ...

Carpe Diem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
... expectations were for a 0.2 per cent gain. You want more! There's more. China's exports fell by 15.2 per cent in the year to September - the smallest decline in almost a year and certainly better than market expectations for a 21 per cent drop. Did I ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher after Wall Street's main index breached the 10,000 point mark on better-than-expected corporate earnings reports. At 0725 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract ...

Bassanese backs Aus eqs and LPTs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
Pennywise Investment, an exchange traded fund (ETF) specialist developed by economist David Bassanese, is keeping an overweight position in Australian equities and local listed property, despite some experts saying the market is overvalued. Bassanese ...

Realindex hits $1 bn FUM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
Colonial First State index investment subsidiary, Realindex Investments, has tipped over the $1 billion funds under management mark in under a year and hired a portfolio manager. The firm, a partnership between Colonial First State and California-based ...

Our fearful trip is done

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
"O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting..." Walt Whitman wrote this poem after US President Abraham Lincoln's assassination ...

ASIC targets Brighton in Westpoint swoop

ASIC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
ASIC has filed a court application to commence proceedings against Brighton Hall Securities as part of its latest Westpoint crackdown. ASIC announced yesterday that it had filed an application for leave in the Federal Court in Perth to commence proceedings ...

REI Super named as default fund

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
The $600 million REI Super has been named as the default superannuation fund in the first draft of a new Federal Real Estate Award. REI Super, which had $608 million at the end of June according to Rainmaker Information, has been singled out by the ...