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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2007
Diving metals prices sent the Australian share market lower after yesterday's record close, with the miners taking the biggest hits. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 Index was down 45.3 points at 6320.6, while the all ordinaries also went south ...

Economic round-up: Bank fee jump is our fault, not theirs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2007
Banks are right now being attacked because of the 6 per cent or $10 billion increase in their fee revenues that is showing up in their profit results, but the fee jump reflects changes in the economy and how we use banks rather than fee gouging. So ...

Local banks face global assault

A leading e-commerce expert is urging local banks to re-evaluate their IT services or risk losing market share to global providers. The power has shifted from banks to the customers and the provider who can handle the scale and global demands of financial ...

Mile high wages club to soar

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
With a tight labour market and skills shortages pumping up wages, commercial pilots look to be next to join the mile-high club in wages growth, adding to recent burgeoning national wages growth. Australia's wages are said to have grown at a record pace ...

Elite investing strategies ready for download

It's not available in Australia just yet but in the US, a new research company is offering mum-and-dad investors and financial planners access to data that reveals the investment secrets of high net worth investors. Robert Huebscher, the founder of ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2007
The Australian share market is expected to slip back slightly today after a record run as Qantas remains in a trading halt and the market awaits the outcome of today's Federal budget. At 0811 AEST, on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price ...

Good times to keep rolling for investors

Perennial Investment Partners' monthly Investors Index has found that April was an excellent month for investors in property and shares. "Global property has benefited from both a shift in institutional investor asset allocation in the developed markets ...

Market volatility, rising AUD hits super funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2007
Volatile stock markets and the surging Australian dollar are taking their toll as super fund returns trim back to just over 10 per cent for the 12 months to end March. The size of the slowdown is significant - just one year ago funds were delivering ...

Nipping at the Tiger's tail

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2007
The airline industry in Australia is getting ready for another bought of savage price competition as Tiger Airways pounces on Melbourne's Tullamarine airport and the upset budget carrier Jetstar has decided to practically give away airline tickets ...

Confidently counting our chickens

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2007
With inflation at a two-year low most economists are tipping there's next to no chance the RBA will hatch an interest rate rise this month. In fact, Foxtel's business news was headlining that RBA rates were on hold, just hours after the CPI figures ...