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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... non-printing entertainment arm, soon to be called 21st Century Fox, which has shot up 76 cents, or 2.5 per cent, to $31.23. The big miners are posting solid losses, however, following falls in commodity prices overnight including iron ore, Australia's ...

TAL Life CEO to sit on parent board

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
TAL Life Insurance Group (TAL) chief executive and managing director Jim Minto has been appointed to the board of Tokyo-based parent company Dai-ichi Life as executive officer. Minto will continue in his role as group chief executive of TAL. TAL chairman ...

Class Super beats BGL to launch automated property valuator

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
Self-managed super fund (SMSF) software provider Class Super has teamed up with property valuator RP Data to launch an automated property valuations service for SMSFs, ahead of BGL's planned launch of a similar service in two weeks. Class Super chief ...

Oh how welcome thy voice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
... I can't tell if the financial market commentariat are just thick or simply plain stupid. Wall Street's up last night - and big time at that - because one 'clever' writer put it down to better than expected US data releases...and the rest of 'em slack ...

Whittaker Macnaught advisers to operate under Financial Wisdom

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... will double its size. The firm will re-brand as Eureka Whittaker Macnaught. "This doubles the scale of our business and is a big step in our plans for a national footprint," Eureka Whittaker Macnaught's chief executive Greg Cook said. Queensland-based ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... decided to retain its diamonds businesses following a review which considered a range of options, including divestment. The big banks were mainly lower, with CBA down 51 cents, or 0.8 per cent, at $65.55, NAB 23 cents, or 0.79 per cent worse off at $28.75 ...

States could learn from Baird's infrastructure model: ISN

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2013
... have favoured investment bank consortiums. "Only a limited number of players have traditionally had the resources to bid for big infrastructure projects," Linden said. "We're talking to state governments about inverting bid processes so that the bids ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2013
... decided to retain its diamonds businesses following a review which considered a range of options, including divestment. The big banks were mainly lower, with CBA down 51 cents, or 0.8 per cent, at $65.55, NAB 23 cents, or 0.79 per cent worse off at $28.75 ...

Is it safe?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2013
... until financial market traders (and their algorithms) make up their mind one way or the other. There's still the potential for big moves - up or down. For those looking beyond the next day's or the following week's trade, I still stand behind my view ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2013
... 4,723.8 points. NEW YORK - US stocks finished a turbulent day mostly higher as the market bounced back from two straight days of big declines after the Fed set a likely timetable for reeling in its stimulus program. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose ...