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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
... slid 1.8 per cent and the Nasdaq tumbled 1.3 per cent. LONDON - Britain's top share index shed 1.05 per cent for its first weekly fall in a month, as a hefty loss in US insurance giant AIG sent financials reeling and miners tracked weaker metal prices. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2008
... points to end at 14,049.26, its highest close since January 11. It rose 185.79 points during the week, posting the seventh weekly gain this year. HONG KONG - Stocks rose, tracking strong Asian and US shares, as lower oil prices boosted energy firms such ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2008
... 5587.3, while the broader All Ordinaries lost 52.7 points to 5658.7. NEW YORK - US stocks posted the first back-to-back weekly gains since February on Friday after earnings at Boeing Co and Philip Morris International Inc bolstered speculation overseas ...

Earnings power peaks from age 35

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2008
Income for males peaks from age 35 while for women it peaks ten years earlier, reveals the ABS. The mean weekly earnings of employees in their main job was unsurprisingly higher for men than for women in every age group with the greatest difference ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2008
... Electric posted weaker quarterly results, adding to recession fears. The FTSE 100 closed down 69.6 points at 5,895.5, for a weekly loss of 0.9 per cent or 51.6 points. FRANKFURT - The DAX index ended at 6603.57 points, down 100.75 or 1.50 per cent, dropping ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
... S&P/ASX 200 index edged up 0.1 per cent, or 5.4 points, to 5,625.0, after rising five per cent last week to log its biggest weekly rise since August 2007. The All Ordinaries index rose 20.4 points to 5,684.1. NEW YORK - US stocks were little changed ...

RSL snubs proposed super changes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... indexation of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) only. We believe that as all other government pensions use both the CPI and average weekly earnings, this pension should move to the same index arrangement," said Crews. "This proposal reduces the defined ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... real estate investment trust. The blue-chip FTSE 100 index closed down 24.6 points, or 0.43 per cent, at 5,692.9, for a weekly gain of 197.7 points. FRANKFURT - The DAX index ended at 6,559.9 points, down 18.16 or 0.28 per cent, a gain of 239.91 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2008
... sank on record crude prices. The benchmark Hang Seng Index closed down 0.29 per cent, or 64.53 points, at 22,237.11 for a weekly loss of 264.22 points. WELLINGTON - The sharemarket slid two per cent on Friday amid a widespread sell off, despite a positive ...

Central banks try again to lift liquidity

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
... the increased costs pushed onto borrowers. Last night's innovation is the decision by the US Fed to undertake a series of weekly auctions with primary dealers under which the Fed will lend up to US$200 billion in aggregate for terms of 28 days, rather ...