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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
... resilience in the face of an economic slowdown. The Nasdaq gained one per cent after Broadcom Corp, a top chipmaker for mobile phones, beat its quarterly revenue target. The results fueled a 4.1 per cent jump in an index of semiconductor stocks and set ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2008
... points at 13,250.43. HONG KONG - Stocks fell 1.09 per cent, tracking losses in regional markets with heavyweights China Mobile and HSBC leading the fall, as investors locked in profits a day after the index hit a five-week closing high. The Hang Seng ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
... KONG - Stocks gained more than 2 per cent as the Federal Reserve's hefty rate cut sparked widespread buying, with China Mobile leading blue chips, buoyed by its forecast-beating earnings. The Hang Seng Index closed up 2.26 per cent, or 482.33 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2008
... cent. TOKYO - Japanese stocks gave up early gains to end lower after scoring a six-week closing high the previous day, with mobile carrier KDDI hurt by a ratings downgrade. The Nikkei average fell 0.6 per cent or 89.85 points to end at 13,824.72. HONG ...

Text ANZ for your account balance

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
ANZ has seized the crown of being the first bank in Australia to offer customers a text-based mobile phone banking service. ANZ will be the first of the big four lending institutions to offer text-based banking facilities through its TXT Banking system. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... tax rebate check in a move designed to stimulate the economy. Wall St was also boosted by a solid earnings result from mobile phone chip maker Qualcomm Inc and data showing a fall in applications for unemployment benefits. According to latest data, the ...

Govt urges auto-rolling of $9.7bn lost super

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... super problem once and for all," said Fawcett. The rise of unclaimed super accounts partly stems from the increasingly mobile workforce, with many people holding several super accounts from ex-employees which they have not rolled over or transferred ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
... of Age Day. The markets will reopen on Tuesday. On Friday, the Nikkei closed at 14,110.79. HONG KONG - Stocks fell with mobile phone maker Foxconn, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd and shipping stocks hard hit by worries over a possible US economic ...

Internet threat gets mobile

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
... consultants and executives that travel the world could be exposing their laptops and their companies to viruses by using mobile hardware devices. "By using USB sticks and other external drives we are exposing the company to possible information leakage ...

Bombay Stock Exchange leads governance reforms

ALEX DUNNIN IN MUMBAI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2007
... developed world exchanges have introduced. "We introduced T+2 trading in 2002 and investors can even trade shares using their mobile phone," said Rajnikant Patel, managing director and chairman of the BSE. Patel said the BSE has been so innovative because ...