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Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2006
The stock market is expected to open lower after US stocks fell sharply in response to the fiercest Israeli-Lebanese clashes in a decade. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was down 60 points to 5008 at 0737 AEST. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2006
The market is expected to open sharply higher as US stock rocketed ahead after investors interpreted a statement by the US Federal Reserve as suggesting it may pause its interest rate lifting cycle. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share ...

MLIM funds on hold but Rock solid

Merrill Lynch Investment Management (MLIM) managing director, Maurice O'Shannassy, spoke out after ratings firm S&P placed two MLIM funds on hold following management changes. S&P said yesterday that the Merrill Lynch Wholesale Global Small Cap fund ...

Boomer Budget bonanza

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2006
The 11th Costello Budget, drawing almost universal praise from the superannuation industry, is tailor made to boost savings from lackluster boomers while its red tape reductions should see advisers get back to actually being advisers. "ASFA's calls ...

Corporate governance the biggest risk: Aon

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2006
An Aon Australia survey has found that the issue of corporate governance is the top risk concern for executives, rocketing from ninth on their list of priorities in 2002-03 to the top of the table this year. Whereas in 2002-03 legal risk was the highest ...

David Jones adds more financial services to shopping list

... to call financial services as a "key generator" in the future given Tesco's success in boosting profits and establishing a rock-solid customer base after it introduced personal finance in 1997. Since then, the group has managed to cross-sell services ...

Tasplan plays super doctor

Tasmanian-based businesses overwhelmed by changes in superannuation laws are about to get a helping hand from industry fund Tasplan, which has announced it will start providing free superannuation diagnostics. Tasplan's general manager, Neil Cassidy ...

Smooth, but watchful, sailing: Perpetual

With its bottom-up, fundamentals investment style, Perpetual doesn't do fortune telling. Even so, it sees no significant bumps on the horizon. That said, Emilio Gonzales, chief investment officer, noted at a briefing, "It is getting harder and harder ...

Market wrap

The Australian share market could open a touch higher despite a negative lead from Wall Street with the futures market showing hope. US markets fell after disappointing earnings from technology bellwethers Intel Corp and Yahoo Inc raised doubts about ...

Plastic debt to reach $48 billion

Consumer borrowing through credit card is predicted to reach just under $48 billion by 2009 prompting calls for tighter government regulation to curb potentially unsustainable borrowing. The inaugural research on credit card debt conducted by market ...