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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
The Australian share market continued its upward charge at noon, taking an interest rate rise in its stride, as a strong lead from Wall Street and higher commodity prices helped stocks recover some of last week's big losses. At 1201 AEST, the benchmark ...

QWL sets sights on Eastern Europe

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
QWL has launched a fund targeting high growth in Eastern Europe, hoping to take advantage of the region's improving integration within the European Union. The QWL Euro # III Fund is being seeded with a $10 million injection and will invest into listed ...

UK alternative weightings quadruple

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2007
UK pension funds now have record low weightings to domestic equities and record high weightings to international equities while weightings to alternative assets have quadrupled in four years, according to a survey by Pension Funds Online, the UK directory ...

Concepts in risk 101

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2007
Market action continues to be dominated by the US sub-prime fallout, but has the market lost its Mojo or is this interest rate and currency market volatility just a rollercoaster ride? Equity markets ended largely unchanged from where they started last ...

Super averages 15.3 pct for 2006-07

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2007
Catholic Super with 21 per cent, SERF with 19.2 per cent, Westscheme with 18.8 per cent, MTAA with 18.7 per cent and Telstra with 18.2 per cent have claimed the official top five places in the SelectingSuper final results for 2006-07 and helped the ...

Sub-prime dominoes falling

The sub-prime contagion's knock-on effect has so far collided with leveraged loans, investment grade bonds, high yield currencies and global equities. Now local councils are feeling the heat. While consensus has been that the sub-prime fallout would ...

Sub-prime contamination causes market carnage

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2007
Australian sharemarkets suffered a $48 billion bloodbath yesterday after the 'millionaire's factory' warned of $300 million losses wiping out a quarter of the value of two of its investment funds. Bear Stearns, already embarrassed by the implosion of ...

CBA launches $370m IWL offer

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2007
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia, owner of leading sharetrading services provider CommSec, is set to buy listed wealth management and broking group IWL for more than $370 million. CBA has entered into a Scheme Implementation Deed to acquire all of ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2007
After opening in the red, the Australian share market continued to flounder at noon in the wake of further troubles on US markets. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had shed 102.9 points to 6041.3 while the All Ordinaries dropped 100.8 points ...

Australian economy to lose shine in 2025

London-based economic futurist and author Hamish McRae predicts that the US will remain the largest economic hub in the world by 2025 with China a close second but that Australia will be overtaken by India and Mexico. Speaking at this year's Fidelity ...