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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2007
... funds may signal worse problems ahead for credit markets. Investors were rattled, also, by news that Democrats in the US Congress introduced legislation to end a tax advantage for investment fund managers as well as a jump in volatility ahead of the ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2007
... Television and Housewares International will hold their general meetings, and the final day of the AMEC National Mining Congress 2007 will be held in Perth. Australian stocks ended yesterday on a low note, after weaker overseas markets and fears of higher ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2007
... due, while the Tasmanian and South Australian governments will hand down their budgets today. The AMEC National Mining Congress 2007 will begin in Perth this morning, with Rio Tinto Head of Exploration Eric Finlayson one of the speakers. Jupiter Energy ...

Taxes should not target PE: BVCA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2007
... members just because they are private investors who use leverage. The rebuff follows reports that the British Trades Union Congress (TUC) is lobbying for executives of leverage buy-out companies to pay tax rates of 40 per cent on profits from their investments ...

Institutions more comfortable with hedge funds: State Street

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2007
... funds today than 12 months ago. Conducted late last year, the study, in conjunction with the 2006 Global Absolute Return Congress (Global ARC), showed more than half of boards also spent 15 percent or more of their time on the subject. "The findings ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2007
... Boeing Co, 3M Co and General Electric Co declined, along with retailers, banks and transport companies. Bernanke told Congress overnight that core inflation, excluding more volatile food and energy costs, remained "uncomfortably high," dispelling expectations ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2006
... and health-care companies as investors worried about the uncertainty of the legislative agenda of a Democrat-controlled Congress. A jump of more than two per cent in crude oil prices and a weaker-than-expected reading in a gauge of consumer sentiment ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
... Tuesday, pushing the Dow Jones industrial average to a fresh all-time high as investors bet midterm elections would leave Congress gridlocked, maintaining the status quo for doing business. Based on the latest available data, the Dow Jones industrial ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2006
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open stronger, following a firm rally in global markets and yesterday's push to record highs. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0738 AEDT, the December share price index contract was up 59 points at 5,490. Today ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2006
... May while imports increased by 21.7 per cent. This will provide further support for protectionist measures in the US Congress and renew calls for a more significant revaluation of the Chinese currency.