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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... (0.06 per cent) to 13,164.78, while the broader S&P 500-stock index added 1.60 (0.11 per cent) to 1,405.53. But the tech-heavy Nasdaq index got a boost from Amazon and Cisco to end a solid 13.95 points higher (0.46 per cent) to 3,030.93. New data showed ...

ASIC calls for kill-switch

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
... properly test the software before it was put in and it sent a whole bunch of erroneous orders to the market and caused them heavy losses as a result - it's a really bad case because it could have been avoided." Jenkins said that the US is far more aggressive ...

Unique investment opportunity in water

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... the problem of supply contamination, Lourey said, with China being held up as an example of industrial effluent including heavy metals as well as hormonal products fed to livestock compromising water supply. Lourey said that governments are starting ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... as investors booked profits following three days of gains, though the scandal-hit bank Standard Chartered rebounded from heavy losses. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies managed to add a slight 0.08 per cent to 5,845.92 points despite ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... as investors booked profits following three days of gains, though the scandal-hit bank Standard Chartered rebounded from heavy losses. Market sentiment was fairly subdued as traders looked ahead to the release of Chinese data on Thursday, including inflation ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2012
... 13,096.17, up a hefty 217.29 points (1.69 per cent). European stocks closed higher, rebounding strongly from the previous day's heavy losses, with London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies up 2.21 per cent at 5,787.28 points. IG Markets analyst ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2012
... per cent for a third straight month. LONDON - European stocks closed higher, rebounding strongly from the previous day's heavy losses, with London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies up 2.21 per cent at 5,787.28 points. In Frankfurt, the DAX ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012
... that more than erased Monday's losses. The S&P 500-stock index advanced 10.03 (0.74 per cent) to 1,363.67, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq added 13.10 (0.45 per cent) at 2,910.04. Stocks reversed earlier losses as investors hoped for more monetary policy ...

Treasury heavy handed on portfolio disclosure

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
... Queensland. Despite industry plans to self regulate the full disclosure of a fund's investment holdings; Treasury has taken a "heavy handed" approach in its tranche three submission to the StrongerSuper legislation, said Margaret Stewart, general manager ...

Improve risk management to target fees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
... changed approach is they way people and investors think about their portfolios and portfolio construction, particularly the heavy weighting to equities risk even though over the past few years it's not where the returns have come from. "Portfolios have ...