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BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
The sun is shining, the sky is blue and everything is fine except... it's not fine enough. Wall Street was so sure heading into the February US non-farm payrolls report that the data will confirm improving labour market conditions in America. All the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... after the British government cleared the way for News Corp to win control of the company after it offered to spin-off the Sky News channel to address competition concerns. HONG KONG - Asian stock markets mostly rose Thursday on upbeat US economic news ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket ended the week on a strong footing, following stunning gains from stocks including Sky TV and Abano Healthcare. Sky TV shares gained 17c to 558, after the company reported a 19 per cent rise in half year net profit ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... Australian businesses. The benchmark NZX-50 index closed down 5.61 points to 3,384.48, after gaining six points on Wednesday. Sky City, which said it lifted its half year normalised net profit 2.1 per cent, fell 4c to 329.

HOSTPLUS cooks up a competition

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2011
HOSTPLUS turns up the heat on low chef apprenticeship figures and promotes the cooking industry through its own master chef competition. HOSTPLUS has launched a national cooking competition, 'Cook For Your Career', which the industry fund said will ...

Hooray it's Oprah day

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
... criticisms for being extravagant and showing Australia in the wrong light. But with Australia's tourism industry reeling from a sky high Australian dollar and recession across the developed world, the $5 million cost to the taxpayer for bringing the ...

Better boring than bubble

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... of millions of dollars despite not delivering any earnings today or expect to do so for the next few years. While the blue-sky potential of these companies are tempting, Villante urged investors to think less like an equity analyst and more as a banker. ...

Coalition still unconvinced on 12 pc SG

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
Coalition superannuation spokesperson and shadow assistant treasurer Senator Mathias Cormann has given the strongest signal yet that the opposition is unlikely to support lifting SG to 12 per cent. Senator Cormann said Bill Shorten, the Assistant Treasurer ...

QE2 to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
... 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, very soon unleashed QE2 - that all-American hero ...

Spoiling for war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
It's a wrap! It's official! September 2010 is the man! Wall Street may have been down for the day but it produced the best September gain even before many of us were born. The S&P 500 index soared by 8.8 per cent in the month, the Dow jumped by 7.7 ...