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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2009
... Standard & Poor's 500 index added 6.79 points (0.69 per cent) to settle at 996.46. Stocks came under pressure in early trading on Wednesday as a broad-based decline in Asia -- Chinese shares slumped into a so-called bear market -- stymied Wall Street ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
The Australian share market has received generally positive leads from overnight trading, with all three key Wall Street indices finishing higher, along with oil and gold. At 0734 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009
... Exchange, the September share price index contract was 12 points lower at 4350 on 18,502 contracts. CMC Markets head of trading, James Foulsham, said the local market was down but the falls were not as steep as in the US on Monday. "We saw a big sell ...

Don't let the bears out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
... Profit takers and weaker commodity prices are taking their toll on the Australian share market, which lost 0.6 per cent in trading on Monday morning as banks and resources stocks sold off. By 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was down 36.4 points ...

E*Trade and Praemium in biggest tax report rollout

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
... all E*TRADE active retail clients. Most of E*TRADE's retail customers are now able to access a free, integrated share trading tax reporting service at the click of a button. This cuts the hours spent by investors collating their contract notes, dividend ...

Fear not a rate rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
... has business confidence. Whatever lingering bearish opinions that remain, are betrayed by current interest rate futures trading - implying a 50/50 probability that the Reserve Bank will start lifting interest rates by November this year and a better ...

ADB pours $240m to worst hit nations

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
... might not have much exposure to these countries, the flow on effects on the funding could boost employment, export and trading activities between Armenia, Georgia, Tajikistan and its neighbours, including China. ADB's board of directors has approved ...

State Street names new head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
... worked at ANZ and Elders Finance Group in London and Sydney. He will be responsible for all the firm's multi-asset class trading businesses, electronic trading, securities lending and a number of investor services including custody, tax and analytical ...

All aboard

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
... the offing - especially as we head into the "ber" months of the year. My calculations show that the S&P 500 currently trading at a P/E ratio of 17.5 times against a long-term average of 18.6. It offers an earnings yield of 5.7 per cent - a hefty premium ...