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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
... $32.35. Energy stocks were up after oil prices rebounded slightly on signs of stronger-than-expected demand in the United States. Shares in energy company Santos rose 12 cents to $12.63 and Woodside Petroleum was up 36 cents to $40.40. Rupert Murdoch's ...

The Infrastructure Fund reaches into Europe

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... the UK under long-term lease agreements. "TIF already owns energy and transportation infrastructure assets in the United States, but Porterbrook presented the opportunity to secure our first European equity investment.A In the process, this allows us ...

Westpac director resigns from board

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... director, she served on both the risk and compliance and remuneration committees. Following her relocation to the United States, it is expected that her commitments as the of Shell's Arctic operations will increase in 2015. The bank said that Pickard ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... dollar pushed past 111 yen after Japan's central bank said it would expand its vast monetary easing scheme and the United States released forecast-busting economic growth data. Japanese stocks clocked up gains of almost five per cent to sit at a seven-year ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... is fast running out of drivers. Though still holding on, growth in the two Uniteds - the United Kingdom and the United States - could be dragged down into the gutters... the Fed said so itself. But this time, it's a bit different. While the Arab Spring ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... on Thursday achieved its largest daily rise in almost two months on signs of continued low interest rates in the United States. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index added 55.4 points, or 1.06%, to 5,296.7 points. The broader All Ordinaries index gained 51.7 ...

Seesaw on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... we are a legal creature of Congress and that we only have a mandate to concern ourselves with the interest of the United States"....and St. Louis Fed's James Bullard, "We're not going to make policy based on emerging-market volatility alone". I even ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
... market has improved a little from its poor start but is still trading lower, after a sharp fall on markets in the United States and Europe overnight. The market slide was generated partly by an International Monetary Fund report that lowered its global ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... mixed US economic data amid worsening anxiety over global economic growth and the first confirmed Ebola case in the United States. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 238.19 points (1.40 per cent) to 16,804.71 on Wednesday. The broad-based S&P 500 ...

Catholic Super awards $90 million to US microcap fund

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
Catholic Superannuation Fund (CSF) has awarded a United States microcap equities fund with $90 million. The institutional award is the first investment to the Thomson Horstmann & Bryant (THB) US Micro Cap Fund. THB is a US-based fund manager with over ...