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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
The Australian market looks set to open slightly higher following gains on both the US and European markets at the end of last week. At 0800 AEST on Monday, the September share price index futures contract was uo five points at 4,335. In economic news ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
The Australian market has opened higher following mixed leads from Europe and the US overnight. At 1030 AEST on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 27.4 points, or 0.6 per cent, at 4,308.6, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up 25.7 ...

Macquarie Private expands adviser team

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
Macquarie Private Wealth has appointed 13 new advisers across six state offices in a drive to expand the national team, drawing strongly on the three-year-old Morgan Stanley Smith Barney network. The Queensland team has received the most significant ...

Tell that to the marines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
Yeah, yeah& tell that to the marines! This was a saying I picked up in high school when I was doing my compulsory military service. The marines don't believe anything, they don't ask why, they simply do or die. This quip came to mind as I surf cyberspace ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012
The Australian sharemarket has opened flat as investors look for signs of a solution in Europe on the last trading day of the financial year. At 1015 AEST on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 6.5 points, or 0.16 per cent, at 4,038.3, while ...

Dressing the windows

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
Is she? Was she? Who did it? Poor Frau no deal "as long as I live" Angie babe. My apologies, this is a very nasty thing to even contemplate but just try and put two and two together - last night's equity markets rally and yesterday's statement by the ...

Go ahead Europe, make my day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
Stop right there. If you believe that last night's reversal of fortune on Wall Street was really, truly because of "improved data on the US housing market" as the Australian Financial Review puts it or "as Home Data Tempers Economic Concern," as per ...

All eyes on Germany ahead of Greek elections

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
National elections at the weekend will be crucial in deciding if Greece stays in the eurozone or not, with polls indicating that left-wing party Syriza is on equal standing with pro-austerity party New Democracy. Syriza has threatened to tear up stringent ...

No random walk on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
As surely as night follows day, an up day on Wall Street followed the previous one's down. Over the past seven trading days, the S&P 500 displayed this classic sawtooth pattern. Here are the stats - and the rationales as headlined: 06 June: Up 2.3% ...

Bennelong names new CFO

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
Bennelong Funds Management has appointed Jeff Phillips as its new chief financial officer, commencing 12 June. Phillips will assume responsibility for the finance, reporting, compliance and product management functions throughout Bennelong and its suite ...