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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... opened a bit stronger than we expected, the financials and materials are the best performers after the financials were hit pretty hard yesterday. "The big sectors are adding most of the points, which is encouraging." There is much activity in equities ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... offshore leads. "But it moved all the way up into slightly positive territory in late morning," Mr Peacock said. "It was pretty flat for the session." The rebound followed weak offshore leads as the United States market lost ground overnight. "Surprisingly ...

UniSuper chair to retire

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... Cuffe said there would not be any change in board direction. "It's business as usual," he said. "We've been lucky to have a pretty good board and things are in good shape." Bryan, who chaired the board for the past four and a half years and who also ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... silver investments and that's putting a fair bit of pressure on the commodity currencies, so the Aussie is getting hit pretty hard," Mr Capurso said. "The Aussie is weaker against all currencies except the kiwi (New Zealand dollar) at the moment." Mr ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... above $1.10 is giving the market a little bit of a concern," Ms Chan said. "It is a two speed economy here, locally it is pretty tough for industry at the moment, it is not easy." "With reporting season coming up we are expecting further downgrades ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... last week and indeed over the course of April, with the Dow Jones index up 4 per cent over the month. "We've seen some pretty good gains coming through from most of the major players today though. Financial stocks are all looking fairly strong, with ...

May go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... on 27 April reminded me so. In it, Reuters wrote, "Jeffrey Hirsch, publisher of the Stock Trader's Almanac, offers some pretty persuasive numbers to support the argument. If you put $10,000 into the market on November 1, 1972, and spent 37 years selling ...

Advisers fear super fund competition

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... future. Minister Shorten responded that intra-fund advice was not of the same depth as that of financial planners. "It's pretty general advice," he said. "If you're worried about industry funds that are killing your business, while you are there you're ...

Good advisers can save clients from tax crackdown

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... practice in the past. "It didn't take long before they realised they were wasting their time with us," he said. "It's a pretty simple lesson, really- you should always make decisions based on the commercial viability of the investment." "If you don't ...

Unshaken and unstirred

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... but 2! Overlay the on-going tensions in the MENA region and its impact on oil prices and the investment environment looks pretty spooky. But still optimism prevails. Perhaps because it's only April? After all, the age-old maxim says that it's only in ...