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A lose-lose proposition

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
If you can't buy 'em, jail 'em! Is China going back to its old ways? Wall Street ended flat overnight. And so it should there was really not much news out for it to react to one or another. The G8 meeting in Italy produced nothing new. Their communique ...

Timbercorp growers favour consortium

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
Timbercorp growers are welcoming talks with a recently formed consortium - TCGrowers - which is looking to buy the embattled agricultural group's forestry assets. According to an update yesterday on the TCGrowers website, the group had received very ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
The Australian sharemarket is likely to open lower on Wednesday following a negative lead from the US and weaker commodity prices. At 0709 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 62 points lower at 3,682. In ...

Morris steps down sooner

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
Dirk Morris, BT Investment Management's chief executive and executive director, will leave the company next week, instead of the initially announced departure three months away. BT Investment Management announced Morris had resigned from the firm last ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
The Australian sharemarket is likely to open flat on Tuesday following a mixed lead from Wall Street and futures pointing down slightly. At 0705 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was down one point at 3,748. ...

Lost decade redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
Sales of Bud (Budweiser) would have picked up during the weekend's 4th of July holiday in the US. Half would have downed the 'Great American Lager' in celebration of the June quarter surge on the Street. The other half - those looking at the week's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open flat on Monday after sluggish trade on the Eurpean and Asian markets, no direction from Wall Street, which was closed on Friday for the July 4 public holiday. At 0732 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

First Super mulls Timbercorp rescue

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
First Super, the $1.5 billion industry super fund for the furniture, pulp, paper and timber industries, has entered a consortium with South Australia-based Penola Pulp Mill and the management of Timbercorp Forestry to discuss the acquisition of Timbercorp's ...

Countplus buys first Sydney practice

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
Countplus has bought a 25 per cent stake in St Leonards-based MBT Accounting Services - marking the first purchase of a Sydney-based firm. Count Financial Limited's wholly owned subsidiary, Countplus Pty Ltd, has settled its tenth acquisition and first ...

No fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... paragraph six or nine. Low volume equals exaggerated equity movement - up or down. But who cares? Tomorrow's the 4th of July - Independence Day! Traders are perhaps more concerned about what to put in the barbie. But on a more serious note, some commentators ...