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Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... Energy provider SP AusNet fell 1.75 cents to $1.3475 after agreeing to pay $500 million to survivors of Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires. The class action settlement - the largest in Australian history - follows claims faulty equipment ignited the ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... Energy provider SP AusNet fell 1.75 cents to $1.3475 after agreeing to pay $500 million to survivors of Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires. The class action settlement - the largest in Australian history - follows claims faulty equipment ignited the ...

150,000 candidates cramming for CFA exams

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... from 179 countries are gearing up to sit six hours of examinations for their Level I, II and III CFA qualifications on Saturday. The number of exam registrations for this year's December 2013 to June 2014 exam cycle exceeds 211,000. Regionally, Asia ...

market wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... lower after weak Chinese trade data lead to a fall in commodity prices. Chinese import and export figures released on Saturday showed an unexpected trade deficit of $US22.98 billion ($A25.37 billion), vastly different to a $US11.9 billion surplus economists ...

No guarantee

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
Ho-hum. This is how I felt early Saturday morning (or was it afternoon?). No Virginia, it wasn't because I had one drink too many the night before - still, I invoke my right to remain silent. 'Twas because that all-important, that mother of all eco ...

Government scraps Labor's annuities reforms

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2013
... and superannuation legislation that former governments had announced but not legislated. Senator Sinodinos announced on Saturday that the government would proceed with 16 of the measures announced by the Rudd, Gillard and Howard governments, and scrap ...

AustralianSuper CEO justifies The New Daily

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013
... fund-owned publication last week caused many to question the appropriateness of super funds owning media outlets. On Saturday, The Australian columnist Judith Sloan lambasted the move, saying she would leave the fund. Her main criticism - that it was ...

Counting up and counting down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... Boehner said." Filibustering Texas Republican senator and 'talk-a-thoner" Ted Cruz must have slipped something in his drink Saturday evening. And so on, and on, and on we go...until potentially, the shutdown meets with the ceiling. But it isn't only ...

Under new management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
... Kevin Rudd. Well Tony finally shut him up...but not before Kevin delivered his final blubber. In his concession ramble on Saturday night live, Kevin rambled on a total of 1,483 words compared with Tony Abbott's 824-worded victory speech. One thousand ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
... major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Friday closed flat as investors sit on their hands ahead of Saturday's federal election. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 2.5 points, or 0.05 per cent, at 5,145. The broader All Ordinaries ...