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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
... Ordinaries index climbed 51 points, or 1.06 per cent, to 4,852.8 points. NEW YORK - US stocks retreated on Tuesday, marking the third pullback in 12 sessions, as disappointing housing and inflation data prompted investors to book recent gains despite ...

FPs and accountants at odds on SMSF strategies

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
... SMSFs, and the rate that do is falling. Among those accountants that said platforms were not appropriate for platforms, a third said this is because platforms are too expensive and 17 per cent said it "defeats the purpose of an SMSF". Driving the differences ...

Future Fund trumps market, but only just

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
... Telstra selldown. The value of its Telstra shareholding fell from $6.9 billion-plus to $2.6 billion-plus after it sold a third of its portfolio which, chair David Murray said, is more consistent with the fund's long term mandate and strategy.

Too big to fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
... are improving. They're beating market expectations. Certainly it's still early days to draw concrete conclusions about US third quarter earnings, but the signs are there...and they are positive. According to Bloomberg, 34 of the 41 US companies that ...

Pleasant and nasty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
... equities, commodities, corporate credit and commodity-based currencies continue to build. Nonetheless, at least until the third quarter reporting season is over, financial market mood will remain uncertain. Every pleasant profit surprise will be greeted ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
... posted big gains for the week. Bank of America lost more than $US2 billion ($A2.17 billion) after preferred dividends in the third quarter. The loss was steeper than expected and stirred fears that struggling consumers won't be able to increase their ...

On A$ parity and dashed whispers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... "neutral"? She's on the ball again. Goldman shares fell by 1.9 per cent despite reporting a more than threefold increase in its third quarter profits. Reports say that while the actual EPS result of US$5.25 greatly exceeded market expectations of US$4.18 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Citigroup Inc stirred worries about the troubles banks still face, despite better-than-expected third quarter financial results. Economic data was positive, with a government report showing the number of newly laid-off Americans ...

Carpe Diem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
... surprises overnight made the Dow's reclamation of 10,000 real easy. Intel beat both profit and revenue expectations for the third quarter. Better, the chipmaker issued a surprisingly strong revenue guidance for the fourth quarter. Now it's not pure expense ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
... earnings reports from chip maker Intel Corp and banker JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPMorgan Chase, the first major bank to report third quarter earnings, as it easily beat Wall Street's expectations, reporting a profit of $US3.59 billion ($A3.95 billion) for ...