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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after US stocks gained overnight. Declines in commodity prices including gold and oil may weigh on resource stocks, however. At 0741 AEST on the Sydney Futures exchange, the June share price index ...

Recovery in securitised assets mask long term problems

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2008
The amount of securitised assets recovered slightly in the March quarter to reach $264 billion but the bounce back masks bigger problems confronting the sector. Securitised assets during March increased 1.4 per cent however compared to the 4.5 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open more than one per cent lower after rising consumer price data in the US hurt Wall Street and mixed commoditiy prices. On the Sydney Futures exchange at 0738 AEST, the June share price index was down 76 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
The Australian share market was lower at noon, led by Macquarie Group, which hinted that its record annual profit may not be repeated due to volatile financial markets. The miners also fell after industrial metals prices declined overnight. At 1200 ...

IC proves value in downturn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2008
Implemented consultants show their value when market conditions turn down, according to the latest survey from the Counterpoint Group. "During the very strong Australian share markets over recent years, the implemented consultants as a class had tended ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
The Australian share market has received mixed lead from Wall Street, with the Dow Jones index down 0.34 per cent, the blue chip S&P500 index barely changed and the Nasdaq technical index up slightly. But resources stocks may receive a boost from strong ...

Tasplan awards $42m mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
Tasplan has reshuffled its funds manager line-up as it appoints a $24.1 million mandate to Marathon Asset Management and a separate $18.3 million to T. Rowe Price. "We've appointed Marathon as a global equity manager, and also T. Rowe Price as a specialist ...

NAB and MLC make headway post sub-prime

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
National Australia Bank and its investment arm MLC managed to wade through the sub-prime carnage to post positive gains in the six months to March. NAB boosted its net profit by 25.8 per cent to $2.7 billion for the first half year and its cash earnings ...

Home loan fall follows rate hikes

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
... JPMorgan economist Helen Kevans said the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) decision to increase interest rates in February and March - which took the cash rate to a near 12-year high of 7.25 per cent - was responsible for the slide in home loans commitments. ...

Equity markets back in style

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2008
... market review, The World by Numbers, developed markets posted a 5.15 per cent gain in April after losing 8.95 per cent in March - a sign that investor confidence is returning amidst speculation that the US credit crunch tide is turning. Echoing these ...