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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2011
The Australian market looks set to open lower, after sharp declines on Wall Street. At 0649 AEST on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was down 58 points at 4,4005. In economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

Westpac launches virtual planning service

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011
Financial planning services are seemingly limitless in distance after Westpac launched its first virtual financial planning service, linking Sydney-based planners to residents in a lucrative mining district. Using video-link and real-time technology ...

Hope trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011
Forget the risk on, risk off trade - what we're having now is the 'hope' trade. It would be hard for anyone not to notice the spectacular resurgence in the share prices of European stocks that happened overnight. The FTSE-100 ended 4.02% on the up and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
Australian shares extended early gains at noon, with materials leading the market as commodity prices slowed their steady descent of recent weeks. At 1200 AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index gained 114.9 points, or 2.97 per cent, to 3978.8, while the ...

Promises and plans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
... billions of euros" to provide a "firebreak" around Greece, Portugal and Ireland and prevent the crisis from spreading to too big to fail Spain and Italy; (2) raise the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) from a,-440 billion to a,-2 trillion ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2011
Australian shares remained in positive territory at noon but had shed some of their early gains from morning trade as anxious investors awaited more news about a Greek bailout from Europe. After opening higher following German Chancellor Angela Merkel's ...

UBS CEO resigns over rogue trading scandal

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2011
The UBS board of directors has accepted the resignation of its chief executive, Oswald GrA1/4bel, after the recent rogue trading scandal that lost the Swiss bank $2.36 billion. Sergio Ermotti has been named group chief executive on an interim basis ...

FOFA fatigue prompts new Guardian offering

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2011
Guardian Financial Planning's 145 advisers now have access to a free paraplanning service for risk Statements of Advice. The new offering comes after Guardian surveyed its advisers and found they are suffering from FOFA fatigue. "We surveyed the advisers ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
... Thursday closed more than 2.6 per cent lower to its weakest close in more than two years, amid global uncertainty following big falls on Wall Street over a downgraded economic outlook. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 106.9 points, or 2.63 per ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
The Australian share market is more than two per cent lower at noon amid global uncertainty following big falls on Wall Street after the US central bank downgraded its economic outlook. The big miners led the falls, with Rio Tinto shares shedding more ...