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Morning Market Wrap: Dollar hits new high overnight

The Australian dollar opened stronger today after reaching a fresh six-year high overnight on the back of US dollar weakness following the Turkey bomb blasts. At 0700 AEDT the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.7223/28 compared with yesterday's close ...

Midday Market Wrap: Dollar weaker

The Australian dollar was weaker at noon after large US investment banks sold the local currency. At 1200 AEDT the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.7108/16 compared with yesterday's close of 0.7133/41. "It's been up to $US0.7120 and it's been down ...

Morning Market Wrap: Investor jitters after weekend terrorist attacks

European stockmarkets suffered heavy losses today as a sell-off on Wall Street and weekend terrorist attacks in Turkey gave investors the jitters. The London FTSE 100 index fell 1.32 per cent to 4,338.9 points at the close of trading, in Paris the CAC ...

Democrats round on government portability regulations

Although striking a deal to introduce limited co-contributions and reduce the superannuation surcharge, and thus emerging as a key player in the retirement savings policy debate, the Australian Democrats have again attacked the government's superannuation ...

Afternoon market wrap: All Ordinaries trail lower

The All Ordinaries dipped lower by 23 points or about 0.72 per cent in trading today whilst Hong Kong's Hang Seng index rose 44.22 points or 0.41%. The Nikkei index plunged 309.99 points or 2.94% as technology stocks reacted badly to a video tape of ...

US growth strengthening, but risks remain: IMF

The expansion in US economic activity will gather momentum in the latter half of 2003, according to the International Monetary Fund's (IMF's) latest review of the US economy. The Fund said US GDP growth should rise from just under 2.5 per cent in 2003 ...

Growth funds record highest returns (5.8%) since December 2001: InTech survey

In its latest performance survey of growth funds InTech has said that the median growth fund has returned 5.8 per cent for the three months to May 2003, the largest return since the December 2001 quarter following the September 11 terrorist attacks. ...

Morning market wrap: Terror alert unnerves Wall St

... Kaseta, vice president of Boston-based fixed income specialists Loomis Sayles told the Financial Standard yesterday that an attack on US soil was one of the biggest threats to the outlook for the corporate bond market and to economic recovery in general. ...

Crean comes out firing on super, corporate governance

Labor's Simon Crean has outlined a series of measures to tighten rules on corporate governance and attacked the Government's superannuation tax policy in a populist response to the Budget that is being seen as a litmus test for his credentials as party ...

Morning market wrap: US shares continue to fall

... consumer sentiment for the month of April followed on from renewed fears of the global terrorist threat-sparked by the suicide attack in Saudi Arabia. Domestically, AMP shares will be looking for support after falling 4.3% yesterday. All Ordinaries ...