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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2007
The Australian stock market is likely to open in the red for a second day running, following another poor performance on Wall Street, oil prices climbed and base metals were softer. At 0725 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December Share Price ...

Another rabbit out of the hat

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2007
On day one of the 'official' election campaign, the Howard government pulled one big rabbit out of the campaign hat with yet more tax cuts, this time to the tune of $34 billion over the next three years. No one voiced cynicism over the timing when Treasurer ...

Finsia appoints new CEO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2007
The Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) has appointed Martin Fahy to chief executive, replacing interim chief executive Stephen Harrison. Harrison was appointed interim chief executive in July after Brian Salter has stepped down from ...

Another DIY take on home ownership

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2007
With housing affordability continuing to deteriorate, one of the country's largest banks has come up with a way to get mums-and-dads access to residential property investments without the stamp duty costs nor the tenancy headaches. Westpac Residential ...

Little fish and the big picture

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2007
The past five weeks has given some investors a classic lesson in the difficulty of timing markets. Expectations of more bad news saw the bears in a sell-off before being forced to buy back in as shares rebounded - a turn around that has enabled shares ...

Australia versus economic escargot

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
France may be broke according to its Prime Minister, who has been airing his financial dirty linen in Corsica, but Australia by all reports is a fiscal high achiever. During a trip to Corsica, France's Prime Minister, Francois Fillon made the unpopular ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open lower today after stocks fell on Wall Street, as 73,000 workers at General Motors launched a nation-wide strike. This is in spite of higher metal prices overnight and a record-setting performance yesterday ...

Portfolios not adjusted for downturn

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
Despite recent turmoil in credit markets flowing into equities, investors have been slow to alter their portfolios to match, according to Merrill Lynch's Survey of Fund Managers for September. Conducted by Taylor Nelson Sofres, the survey of 188 fund ...

Sub-prime currency fall-out

SUZY MAC IS ON LEAVE  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2007
With central banks lowering official interest rates in response to sub-prime induced credit crunches rather than due to fundamental parameters, we could be in for some unpredictable currency movements. This week the US Federal Reserve slashed their ...

Insto investors down but not out

A leading barometer on investor confidence has found that a lower number of institutions were bullish about the equities markets over the last month. The State Street Investor Confidence index analyses the buying and selling patterns of institutional ...