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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open higher with US and European stock markets ending the first quarter of the year with rallies overnight. At 0720 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was up 26 points at 3,592. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open lower with US and European stock markets experiencing heavy falls on weaker economic sentiment. At 0725 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was down 57 points at 3,559. In ...

Risk technology reloaded

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2009
Technology firm Sybase plans to help local investment managers avoid the mistakes of Wall Street when it launched a trading technology platform that alerts an investment firm to counterparty risk problems sooner rather than later. Last week, Sybase ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open lower after US stocks and commodity prices declined on Friday. Energy prices also tumbled, with investors worried that oil's recent gains are not sustainable amid lingering doubts about the economy. At ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after US stocks gained on an upbeat profit report from electronics retailer Best Buy Co and the increase in unemployment slowed. Resource and energy stocks may also gain on rising commodity prices ...

The light, the light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
There were some encouraging economic statistics released out of the US over the past two days. Is this the light at the end of the tunnel? Or an oncoming train's headlights? This is better explained by a scene in the 'Blues Brothers' movie where Jake ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open slightly higher after US stocks recovered late in the trading session on positive economic reports. Gold miners may gain on the rise in the precious metal and energy stocks may decline after the oil price ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open little changed following the pullback in US stocks after Monday's surge. Resource stocks may decline after metals prices fell. At 0728 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was ...

Not-for-profit super funds reign

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
Not-for-profit super funds have consistently beaten retail funds by an average 2.4 per cent per year over nearly a five year period - resulting in some retail funds' members getting around 40 per cent less in their final retirement benefits, new research ...

Sentiment tips back to Aussie shares

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
Confidence is returning to Aussie shares according to research from Russell Investments that found 60 per cent of managers expect the S&P/ASX200 to end the year above 3500 points, suggesting they expect no further sustained falls. Russell Investments ...