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Market wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
... SYDNEY - The Australian share market is expected to open lower after a poor performance on Wall Street overnight as a renewed spike in oil prices worried investors. At 0756 AEST on the Sydney Futures exchange, the June share price index was down 90 points ...

QIC develops better anti-inflation strategy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2008
Rising world inflation has sparked QIC to develop more innovative ways of insulating their investors from the negative impacts it will have on their long term savings. QIC noted that inflation is now moving into the fifth year of being above its long ...

Instos change mandate strategies

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
... which rose five-fold during the year, up from 12 real estate investment searches in 2006 to 62. Against this 20 per cent spike in alternative assets, the number of investment manager searches from Australian institutions fell by 25 per cent to only 82 ...

CPI, housing affordability and oil bills

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
Yesterday's CPI spike just made fighting inflation and housing affordability that little bit harder but at least it will help the country pay for its oil import bill. Inflation rising 4.2 per cent, above what most market economists were expecting, is ...

Retail profits, currency price cuts and ag-flation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
Fighting inflation may be the government's number one policy fight right now, but another should be fighting contradictory policy suggestions and forcing retailers to pass on currency induced price cuts. Australia's major economic debate is how the ...

Lifeplan appoints new solutions manager

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2008
... training to our growing business development team and financial planning groups across the country." "We also needed to meet a spike in demand for technical assistance and training for a newly launched tax-advantaged education investment fund, which ...

Wage costs jump 4.3 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2008
... ticket movers inflation was a much more respectable 2.2 per cent, reported the ABS earlier this year. The housing price spike that reached 12 per cent if we consider just prices is so severe however that an online poll conducted by X Inc Finance found ...

Fear brings opportunity for the wise

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
Buy, sell, or run for the hills? January's Black Tuesday saw the axing of over $100 billion from the share market, but savvy investors will realise the ailing stock market still boasts lucrative investment opportunities. According to a report by wise-owl ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
... pretty flat. "Any company that is flat is probably doing quite well." Shares in Rio Tinto have settled back down from a spike seen on Friday when rumours of a sweetened takeover bid by rival BHP Billiton were rife, he added. "That's been denied by BHP ...

MFS director waves goodbye

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
Investors of property and tourism investment company MFS may be nervously waiting the decision on City Pacific's $830 million offer for the firm's funds management business, but one of the firm's non-executive director, Michael Hiscock, won't be staying ...