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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
... weekend reported that federal public servants were told to bring work forward and clear backlogs in readiness for a possible poll in early 2013. Gold stocks were the market's best-performing sector at the open, rising 1.54 per cent, according to IRESS ...

Thank you, xie xie, arigato

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
Australian stocks look set to open lower following further falls on international markets overnight after European central banks held key interest rates at record low levels and debt-stricken Greece approved new austerity measures. At 0631 AEDT on Friday ...

Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
Australian stocks are slightly higher after positive leads from Europe and Wall Street. At 1018 AEDT on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 7.9 points, or 0.18 per cent, at 4,492.7 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had risen ...

Market wrap early AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
The Australian market looks set to open higher following strong gains on Wall Street as Americans head to the polls in the presidential election. At 0700 AEDT on Wednesday, the December share price index futures contract was up nine points at 4,482. ...

A week full of question marks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
Now what's wrong this time? The US Bureau of Labor Statistics released the 'mother-of-all-economic statistics' at the end of last week's trading and it was good. But how did Mr. Market react? He thought it was good too until... he didn't. The S&P 500 ...

Government should act fast on Johnson Report: FSC

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2012
... and the development of an Asian region funds passport. More than 73% of asset managers surveyed in an RBC Investor Services poll, conducted between April and June 2012, said that they would be interested in an Asian Region Funds Passport. "The proposed ...

Not long now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
Australia's trading session had already called it off for the week when the US Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released the better-than-expected scorecard for the economy. But don't despair Virginia, we didn't miss much. Better ...

Big data 'big headache' for super: J.P Morgan

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... of harnessing their data, and combining traditional investment data insights with individual member information, will take poll position in Australia's highly competitive investment and increasingly rationalised super industry. Big data refers to the ...

Limboland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012