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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011
... moved over three per cent higher," Mr Burrowes said. "Risk appetite everywhere has gone crazy. "It seems that the market is pretty relieved that we got the EU rescue package." At 0700 AEDT on Friday, the Australian dollar was trading at 107.17 US cents ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011
... French and German leaders flagging a "global and ambitious answer". "A lot of investors would've been hoping we would have a pretty solid morning and could have up into the afternoon but everyone has a wait and see approach," he told AAP. "If we don't ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011
... said the successful vote did little to improve sentiment on currency markets. "Passing (bills) through parliament is a pretty different story than actually passing it through the populace," Mr Sinton said. Hopes were that a three-day European Union summit ...

FSS security breach strikes industry chord

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011
... at the amount of funds that have had 24/7 member access for some time now, for this to be the first major incident is a pretty good record," said Vamos. "We may have come to the party late but we are coming in good and strong and mistakes will be made. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2011
... after offshore markets reacted positively to it, many investors were sitting on the sidelines. "(The market) has had a pretty decent run in the last few days and I think people are just taking a bit of a breather because while they're progressing to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011
... said another bout of bad news from Europe did not help the Australian dollar. "The Australian dollar is under pressure, pretty much like all risk assets," Mr Speizer said from Auckland. "The Aussie is down and, again, negative European news was the primary ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2011
... tentative and we'll have to see what the outcome of these G20 talks on a new bailout fund will be... I'm personally still pretty cautious (and expect there are) still bouts of volatility ahead (this week)," he said. Making news on Monday, supermarket ...

Instos urged to grab sovereign debt chance

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... markets. I'd certainly be as happy to lend to Korea as I would France or Italy. "Then if you want to invest in that in a pretty passive way or you think you want to hire a very skilled manager to invest around that then both of those are great choices ...

Local instos eye US equities

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... Swanson said even though the US equity market isn't the cheapest in the world, the characteristics of it to do well are pretty impressive. "Yes, European equities are cheaper right now but I think investors that buy large cap high quality US companies ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
... to surprise, "you would think that it would probably be a hint of a rate cut". "But our view is that it will probably be pretty neutral," Mr Callow said. US markets were closed overnight due to a public holiday, so direction for currency markets came ...