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Who's next to confess?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
... -4 in the previous three-month period. Financial market performance overnight is not about to give solace to domestic trading activity today. In the US, the Dow Jones Index dropped by more than 2 percent while yields on 10-year Treasuries dropped by ...

BGI targets adviser iShare apathy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... getting to advisers," he said. He said institutional platforms, overall, are not well equipped to provide direct share trading, which could go someway to explaining the lacklustre uptake of ETFs. "Typically the dealer groups from a software perspective ...

Aust must avoid Europe's ETS disaster

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... chief executive of the NSW Minerals Council, speaking last night at the Sydney Institute, said, "the European emissions trading scheme [ETS] was the biggest carve out in wealth in modern times in the name of the environment". Williams said Australia ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... September share price index futures contract added 12 points to 5,113. Today, Lion Nathan Ltd will release its third quarter trading update and GUD Holdings Ltd will reveal its annual results. Commonwealth Bank of Australia Ltd chief executive Ralph ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
The Australian equities market was trading higher at midday led by improved sentiment toward the financial sector after Wall Street closed up more than one per cent overnight. At 1200 AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index gained 77.4 points, or 1.55 per ...

Complex event processing made simple: Apama

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
... modifiable applications that are bundled with the release. The new release also includes sample applications for financial trading, process monitoring, and revenue assurance for telecommunications. "With this release, we have integrated the breadth of ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
... Minister for Climate Change Senator Penny Wong today address the Australian Business Economists on the last week's Emissions Trading Scheme Green Paper. Yesterday, the Australian share market zoomed 3.5 per cent higher to post its biggest single-day ...

Planners miss sustainable mark: Fahy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
... values." However, Fahy is confident this trend will reverse, after publicity surrounding the federal government's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and a general push by financial institutions to 'go green'. "It will come to a stage where market forces ...

Energy investments surge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
Regardless of the finer debating points on what the ideal emission trading system should look like, investors are already flocking to alternative energy. New investment into the sector jumped US$148 billion in 2007, up 60 per cent over 2006, noted a ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
... broader All Ordinaries dropped 62.1 points or 1.25 per cent to 4,915.3. NEW YORK - US shares closed mixed Friday in volatile trading after Citigroup reported better-than-expected losses and Microsoft and Google issued dim outlooks that roiled tech stocks. ...