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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... rising seven cents to $13.21. BHP Billiton was down nine cents to $43.54 and Rio Tinto was 61 cents weaker to $80.34. The big banks all lost some ground. "The banking sector is continuing to drift due to global debt concerns," Mr Muller said. National ...

Rainmaker reveals 2011 Sales & Marketing Excellence Awards

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
Challenger emerged as the biggest winner from the 2011 Rainmaker Sales & Marketing Excellence Awards Dinner last night, picking up three awards, while PIMCO, Legg Mason and AustralianSuper each scooped two. The awards dinner, compared by ABC newsreader ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
The Australian share market is set for a slightly higher start after China's economic growth and comments from the US Federal Reserve that it is prepared to renew stimulus fuelled gains overseas. At 0752 AEST the local September share price index futures ...

HOSTPLUS serves up online engagement

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... competition, which the industry fund designed to help combat the national skills shortage in Australian restaurants was a big success. Thanks largely to the campaign, traffic to HOSTPLUS' website went up 13% and has received a 33% increase in online ...

US Fed hints at QE3

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
Hints of a third round of quantitative easing from the US Federal Reserve emerged from the minutes of a Federal Open Market Committee meeting released overnight. The FOMC minutes from its June 21-22 meeting revealed that policy makers disagree on whether ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... happening in America and Europe," he said. "The European credit situation has got worse and the European and US banks took a big shellacking in the stockmarket." "The result is uncertainty, and when you get uncertainty you get markets falling." Mr Bishop ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... unemployment rate rose to 9.2 per cent, continued to weigh on investor sentiment as well. All 30 Dow blue chip stocks fell, and big banks took heavy hits. Bank of America lost 3.3 per cent, JPMorgan Chase fell 3.2 per cent and Citigroup lost 5.3 per ...

Carbon blast from the GST past

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
Yes, I know. It was very conspicuous -- the absence of even a single line of commentary on this space over Prime Minister Gillard's Sunday announcement of the carbon tax nitty-gritties. I didn't want to jump the gun or add my still confused thoughts ...

Investment head concerned by super approach

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... saying, 'well what can you do with a board like ours?'" he said. "It comes down to governance. I gather there are still some big funds that don't have an investment committee, which is a huge buffer in the governance process." Speaking at an AXA IM roundtable ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... BlueScope Steel fell 4.5 cents, or 3.33 per cent, to $1.305 and OneSteel lost eight cents, or 3.94 per cent, to $1.95. The big four banks each lost at least 1.26 per cent, while diversified financials were mostly worse off. Macquarie Group dropped 69 ...