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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
... a tender for $600 million of Treasury notes maturing February 26, 2010. In companies news, Westfield Group releases its third quarter review, SP AusNet releases interim results, and Cochlear Ltd chief executive Chris Roberts is to speak at a conference ...

Optimism may not be enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... economy as a whole continue to ease. Most are now expecting the single-currency area's real GDP to post positive growth in the third quarter. Given this optimism, the rally in Eurozone equities over the past few months is hardly surprising. The Dow Jones ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... reporting a solid profit performance this year, while Barclays Bank lost 5.10 per cent after disclosing a sharp slide in third-quarter net profits as its bad debts soared. Rival bank HSBC, Europe's biggest bank, gained 4.02 per cent after reporting that ...

Computershare to challenge industry incumbents

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... that the share registry industry was once in the same position, with issuers managing their registers in-house, through third party administrators (TPAs) on proprietary systems or on ageing vendor systems. Angus said Computershare forecasts major changes ...

Weight in gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... remain loose in their ways. Over the past few weeks, we've seen equity markets swoon despite better-than-expected reported third quarter earnings by US companies - reportedly 80 per cent of which beat estimates. This was just not enough to soothe nerves ...

Job woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
... - a leading indicator of the economy - is predicting recovery. The 3.5 per cent annualised growth in US real GDP in the third quarter suggests that the economy is following the scrip. The labour market is next. This is underscored by the continued easing ...

December 25bps

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
... Japan aside of course. And this at a time when the Australian dollar is appreciating fast. China grew by 8.9 per cent in the third quarter and is expected to grow by more than 10 per cent next year. South Korea expanded by 1.5 per cent in the September ...

ING Clarion wins inflows and award

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
... attracted more than $600 million from local investors this year and won the 2009 S&P Fund Awards property category for the third time. The ING Investment Management division is one of the few global property securities in Australia to be rated 'five ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2009
... between gains and losses but with a mostly positive bias. Market sentiment was helped by news ahead of the bell of Ford's third-quarter profit of $US997 million on improvement in its North American business, and comments that it was on track to become ...

Trick or treat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
... a treat last Thursday in the form of a better-than-expected 3.5 per cent annualised growth in US real GDP growth in the third quarter. Ahhh...all is well. The US economy is back to growth. But Halloween is not otherwise known as the "festival of the ...