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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2008
... after-market and is down some 12 per cent, and we've got Citi reporting tonight and Merrill was after-market. "The after-market trading is probably leading our market a little bit lower, rather than following the US." Rio Tinto lost $1.80 or 1.53 per ...

Dimensional wins $100m Aust Eq mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
... that can result in lower overall operating expenses and rebalancing costs. A smoother and broader exposure also reduces trading costs and capital gains caused by style drift or the reconstitution of indices," according to the asset manager. Meanwhile ...

Fed Gloom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
... Bernanke's testimony before the US Congress last night catapulted the Australian dollar to a 25-year high in overnight trading. The Australian dollar broke above the US$0.9800 level, reaching a high of US$0.9849, before settling at around US$0.9780. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
... Jones blue-chip index hit a two-year low with sentiment weighed down by the financial woes of US banks and finance firms. Trading remained volatile as financial sector as investors lost confidence in a government rescue package for giant mortgage-financing ...

Russell and Mercer lead MM pack

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... review found rising competition in space has resulted in managers focusing on alpha loss prevention resulting from poor trading practices.

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... have been the focus of the market on what's happening in the US." Mr Lakos also said declines had been exacerbated by low trading volumes. "It's not being pressured down but sliding away," he said. The banks slumped, with Commonwealth Bank of Australia ...

Traders join iPhone revolution

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
... the iPhone, the new purpose-built CommSec iPhone Edition incorporates the gadget's touch-screen functionality and allows trading from any location. This in turn opens the portal for clients to log in 24/7 to tap into real time market news, prices, research ...

BOQ writes off franchise loans

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
... increasingly willing to write off some of those loans. Of 55 owner-managed branches in New South Wales for BOQ, most have been trading for only three years or less. More than three-quarters of the BOQ franchises set up in Sydney over the last three years ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... Nikkei-225 index edged up 15.08 points to 13,067.21 as real estate companies and banks gained on short-covering in cautious trading. HONG KONG - Hong Kong share prices closed flat on Thursday after a topsy-turvy session that saw the benchmark index swing ...

Barclays emits carbon trading ETN

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
... Exchange Traded Note (ETN) on the NYSE Arca stock exchange to provide investors with exposure to greenhouse gas emission trading schemes. The iPath ETN is linked to Barclay's Capital Global Carbon Index Total Return, which tracks the performance of the ...