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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2012
... for January. In equities news, Goodman Fielder chief executive Chris Delaney is due to address the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia luncheon in Sydney. In Australia, the market on Monday drifted to a marginally weaker close amid lower trading ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2012
... indicators in the US and Europe overnight. The US economy picked up more speed than expected in the fourth quarter. The US Commerce Department's upward revision said the world's largest economy grew at an annual clip of 3.0 per cent in the final three ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011
... reached last week among European leaders fell far short of what was needed to contain that region's debt crisis. The Commerce Department reported Tuesday that retail sales rose for the sixth straight month in November. Sales increased just 0.2 percent ...

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BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011
... index. It jumped to 52.7 in November against expectations of 51.8 and the previous month's reading of 50.8. There was the Commerce Department report that US construction spending rose by 0.8% in October - the third straight month of gains. These reports ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
... release. In equities news, Origin Energy managing director Grant King is scheduled to address an American Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Sydney. In Cairns, Coca-Cola Amatil chief executive Terry Davis will address an Australian Institute of Company ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2011
... annual general meetings. Insurance Australia Group managing director Michael Wilkins will address an American Chamber of Commerce in Australia luncheon. Toro Energy chairman Erica Smyth will appear on a panel at a Committee for Economic Development of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
... on Friday. In equities news, Telstra chief customer officer Gordon Ballantyne is due to address an American Chamber of Commerce luncheon, NBN Co opens an opearations centre in Melbourne's Docklands while Myer Holdings, Primary Health Care, Sundance Resources ...

SG rise through House of Representatives

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... prepared for retirement," said head of the Financial Planners Association, Mark Rantall. However the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) is slamming the hike, accusing the government of sneaking it through parliament "on the coat tails" ...

Lookin' for trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... and a lotta fodder for speculation. Big trouble... but not in little China. At the annual US-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT), Chinese Vice-Premier Wang Qishan warned that, "The one thing that we can be certain of, among all the uncertainties ...

Reverse contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
... just around the corner - expect a lotta more shopping to go on - and that's why am in Christmas countdown mode. The US Commerce Department reports that retail spending increased by 0.5% in October following a 1.1% gain in the previous month. This was ...