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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 ...

Pooled funds lose cash

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... strong growth in deposits as investors have the jitters. Also if you look at returns on term deposits... they are generally pretty good." Plan For Life's data showed net retail capital flowing to managed funds fell by more than 80 per cent from $1.19 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... 101.14 US cents. St George chief economist Besa Deda said the local unit was drifting lower on Wednesday. "It remains a pretty quiet trading day today," Ms Deda said. "There's a bit of profit taking accruing, after getting to 101.28 US cents overnight ...

Share plummet overplayed - fund managers

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... event risk, my inclination is that they will get it under control but the tail risk of not getting it under control is pretty high, so it's a time to remain cautious," he said.