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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
The Australian stock market has received positive leads from overseas, with Wall Street's key stock indices higher and commodities prices firmer. At 0810 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was up 20 points at ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
The Australian market has received mixed leads from overseas, with Wall Street's key stock indices and commodities prices mostly lower, although the Dow Jones Industrial Average turned positive in afternoon trade and the price of gold was higher. At ...

LUCRF widens insurance choice

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
The $2 billion-plus LUCRF Super has improved its income protection insurance and introduced a range of options that allow members to insure their income for a dollar amount. Greg Sword, chief executive of LUCRF Super said the fund had implemented a ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open lower on Tuesday after Wall Street fell due to the impact of a stronger US dollar on multinational and resource companies. At 0721 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
The Australian share market was more than one per cent higher at noon, buoyed by rises in miners and the banks. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 67.3 points, or 1.4 per cent, at 4,860.1 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...

Pleasant and nasty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
It was always going to be this way in every reporting season. There will be surprises - pleasant and nasty. The Dow slipped from the 10,000 mark at the close of trading last week on the back of surprises - the nasty kind - from lower than expected profit ...

Doom dollar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
Just a day after this space commented on the risky proposition of holding US dollars, Bloomberg reports overnight that world central banks are diversifying out of the greenback. Data compiled by Bloomberg revealed that central banks have backed up their ...

ANZ buys ING Aus for $1.76bn

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
ANZ goes up the ranks of the wealth management and life insurance sectors when it acquired the 51 per cent stake it did not own in a joint venture with ING Group for $1.76 billion - transforming it into a $45 billion fund manager with more than 1,700 ...

Greenback weakness not all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2009
A global recovery is truly underway, risk appetites are being stoked, there is no more need for flight-to-quality bids. These are the reasons used to justify the sharp depreciation in the US dollar. The greenback fell to its lowest 2009 level against ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
The Australian market has received strongly negative leads from the key Wall Street and European indices overnight, and from another drop in the price of crude oil and base metal copper, although precious metals were higher. At 0725 AEST on the Sydney ...