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Market Wrap - AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012
... points and the broader All Ordinaries index up 1.1 point at 4,592.9 points. Wall Street stocks slipped after more signs of tension emerged from federal budget talks in Washington. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 74.73 points, or 0.56 per cent ...

CBUS investments in CMFEU sights

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
Protests by the Victorian branch of the CMFEU against an alleged indirect business relationship CBUS has with the Grocon building group has highlighted how - as super becomes more wired to the broader economy - funds will have to confront more intense ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on Wall Street in its last trading session after political leaders signalled a determination to compromise to avoid sending the US economy over the fiscal cliff. At 0800 AEDT on Monday ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... $28.98 at 1045 AEST. In the US markets, stocks followed the negative lead of Asian and European markets amid increased tension over the eurozone debt crisis. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.33 per cent to 13,413.51, the S&P 500 lost 0.57 per ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on the US and European bourses as concern re-emerges over the eurozone's debt problems and confidence wanes for the Federal Reserve's QE3 move. At 0815 AEST on Thursday, the December share ...

ISN blasts FSC's independence policy

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... to their boards and therefore fails to address one of the major governance issues for retail super funds, "namely the tension between their legal obligation to maximise shareholder returns and the fiduciary duty owed to fund members." ISN also said the ...

Double A USA - the scare that wasn't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
Financial markets have again become Eurocentric - bobbing up and down on every blah that comes out of anybody who's somebody's lips. I don't think anybody could argue that Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti is somebody. Thus, when he blahed to Germany's ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street and European bourses rose strongly after the European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi pledged full support for the euro. At 0800 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
The Australian sharemarket opened sharply lower following gloomy leads from markets overnight and disappointing earnings results in the US. At 1010 AEST on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 37.7 points, or 0.91 per cent, at 4,095.5 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on Wall Street overnight on growing concerns about Europe's sovereign debt crisis and lacklustre corporate earnings in the US. At 0815 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures ...