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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
... higher Friday, with markets buoyed late in the trading day by the news that Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak had been toppled. Minutes after the announcement that the Middle East strongman of three decades had stepped down, the main indices rocketed upward ...

60 Minutes deception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
... and nowhere to go, financial markets were forced to replay Big Ben Bernanke's weekend interview with Scott Pelley on "60 Minutes". They didn't like it on its first run, they still didn't like it on replay. Personally, I wasn't surprise that he said what ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
... cents, while the major indices also experienced a small fall. But that ground was made up by gains in the next thirty minutes. Macquarie Private Wealth adviser Helen Spencer said investors were still cautious because of debt concerns in Europe and volatility ...

Bite sized super at Telstra

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... informative web videos for members to get involved with their super. Telstra's 'Super Bites' videos run between two and four minutes each and feature members of the fund's education team, taking viewers through different super-related topics. The videos ...

When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... economy was stronger than first calculated (up 2.5 per cent from the initial estimate of 2.0 per cent), but the Fed's FOMC minutes - you know, the one where they announced mo' money, US$600 billion of it - revealed their concern over growth and the unemployment. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... contract was 16 points higher at 4,723 points. In economics news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases the minutes of its November 2 monetary policy meeting. The Melbourne Institute releases its Wages Report for the three months to November ...

Money, money, money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010

Demystifying the "flash crash"

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... markets did not cause the "flash crash" of May 6 where US equity markets dramatically declined and recovered in a matter of minutes. In a recent inquiry into the abnormal market behaviour, the US Commodity Trading and Futures Commission (CFTC) and the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
The Australian share market was higher at noon, as the market digested the minutes of the latest Reserve Bank monetary policy meeting, released late on Tuesday morning. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 18 points, or 0.39 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... was 41 points higher at 4,696 points. In economics news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) publishes the minutes of its October 5 monetary policy meeting. In equities news, ANZ Banking Group Ltd chief executive Mike Smith addresses a Trans-Tasman ...