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House call

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... encourage more purchases going forward. Increased house purchases, along with diminishing supply - new homes available for sale are estimated to be cleared in 7.6 months at the current sales rates as against 9.6 months in the previous month - should ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
The Australian stock market is likely to open higher after the Dow Jones hit a two-month high on Monday. At 0730 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was up 26 points at 4,502 points. In economics news on Tuesday ...

T. Rowe Price opens Aus equities business

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
T. Rowe Price is opening an Australian equities division for the first time and hired former Schroder Investment Management senior portfolio manager, Randal Jenneke, to oversee its development. Jenneke spent nine years at Schroder as an Australian equities ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
The Australian stock market was buoyant in morning trade after stronger-than-expected sales figures from Wesfarmers and rises in banking shares. Following a strong finish last week on Wall Street, at 1200 AEST Australia's benchmark S&P/ASX200 index ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
The Australian stock market is expected to open higher after gains on Wall Street on Friday. At 0725 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was up 40 points at 4,476 points, on volume of 3,136 contracts. In economics ...

Unusually certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
There you go. I guess the economic outlook does not "remain unusually uncertain" now. This is if you believed yesterday's headlines that the cause of Wall Street's fall the previous day was because of Ben Bernanke's statement that, "the economic outlook ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2010
The Australian stock market has received a positive lead from offshore markets, after Wall Street closed higher and commodities prices ended firmer. At 0745 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 41 points ...

Insurers post double-digit growth

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
AMP, National Australia/MLC and Tower were among the insurers that reported double digit percentage growth in risk premium inflows last year - but overall sales in the risk market has slumped, research shows. According to Plan for Life, Australia's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2010
... announcement, investors began buying on the belief that the government and Goldman Sachs had settled the charges that grew out of the sale of securities based on risky mortgages. Anticipation of a settlement, which would remove uncertainty that has hovered ...

Pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
h no! Wall Street has run out of puff. Wall Street ended flat overnight after seesawing for much of the trading day. In case you start getting an attack from the jitterbug once again, have no fear... nothing much has really changed. After six days of ...