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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2006
... while Cashcard unveils its March retail activity index. NEW YORK - US stocks gained as investors bought tech stocks after Apple released software that could expand the number of users of its Mac computers. A jump in US crude oil futures prices above ...

Asset Super to upgrade insurance and offer super splitting

Asset Super is set to deliver twice the benefits to its members with plans to revamp its insurance offering and to allow 'contribution splitting', a tax saving strategy for couples. Asset's general manager, John Paul, said the group's insurance outsourcing ...

Gates wide open for fee-for-service: MLC

... about providing consumers with choice and improved transparency on what they are paying for. He added that it also provides apple-for-apple comparison with competing products such as industry funds. This is specially critical at a time when industry ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2006
... slim gain as a brokerage upgrade helped lift shares of Alcoa, while the Nasdaq fell under the weight of a drop in shares of Apple. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 4.65 points at 10,798.27. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 0.99 points at ...

A year of growth and developing opportunities: Franklin Templeton

Global growth will pull back slightly in 2006 and developing economies will pick up the slack as consumption and GDP growth eases in developed countries, according to Franklin Templeton. At their briefing, Franklin Templeton were certainly not shy of ...

OFM scores a birdie with new resort and leisure trust

Listed financial services company OFM Investment Group Limited has bought two premium golf resorts as the base portfolio of its new OFM Resort and Leisure Trust. The two properties purchased were Moonah Links and The Sands located in Victoria. The Moonah ...

Apples are not apples with new accounting standards

The recent adoption of international accounting standards will make it harder for investors to make "like for like" comparisons of investment data, according to the latest report from Tyndall. Tyndall's research, aptly titled "Apples and Oranges - investors ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2006
... was four points higher at 4831, at 0837 AEDT. NEW YORK - US stocks rose on Wednesday as broker price-target increases on Apple Computer Inc. helped Nasdaq to its seventh straight gain and bullish analyst commentary lifted investment management firms. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2006
... Alcoa Inc. and a profit warning from Phelps Dodge Corp. reduced optimism about corporate earnings, but gains in shares of Apple Computer Inc. added support. In late trading, however, the Dow Jones industrial average was trading above the 11,000 point ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2005
... 500 to its highest close in four and a half years. But the Nasdaq ended marginally lower after Wall Street downgrades of Apple weighed on technology shares. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 59.79 points at 10,883.51. The Standard & Poor's 500 ...