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Bogus super fund a wake-up call for investors: ASIC

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
ASIC has received complaints regarding the activities of Swiss Private Capital Ltd (Swiss Private) and their offers of interests in 'Aussie Super -Superannuation Fund'. Purporting to be a Dubai-based private investment firm with branch offices in New ...

Coming in 2014: Aussie recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... 100 per cent. Baltic Dry Index FALLS by 41.2% from 20 December 2011 to last night. 10 Wheat prices to double next year. Close but still no cigar. Wheat prices rose by 38.8% between 20 December 2011 and last night. So there we have it folks! Nothing seemed ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... scheduled. In Australia, the market on Wednesday closed slightly lower, amid renewed scepticism about the Greek bailout deal. At close, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 9.5 points, or 0.21 per cent, at 4,447.3 points, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... up one cent at $2.87. The spot price of gold in Sydney was $US1,741.40 per fine ounce, down $US8.60 from Tuesday's local close of $US1,750.04 per ounce. Mr Heffernan said the release of construction data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) ...

Obama re-election to boost healthcare and banking stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
US President Barack Obama's re-election has removed uncertainty about the direction of banking and healthcare policies posing a raft of opportunities for investors, according to Origin Asset Management's John Birkhold. Four more years of Obama has removed ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... over a bankruptcy for the indebted eurozone country. London's FTSE 100 index of leading companies rose 0.22 per cent to close at 5799.71 points, Frankfurt's DAX 30 climbed 0.55 per cent to 7332.33 points, and in Paris the CAC 40 edged up 0.03 per cent ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
... per cent, at $2.885. The spot price of gold in Sydney was $US1,749.50 per fine ounce, down 65 US cents from Monday's local close of $US1,750.15 per ounce. National turnover was 218.2 million securities worth $443.1 million, with 281 stocks up, 268 down ...

Flip flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
So what else is new? Up one day, down the next. Optimism that US will jump over the cliff one day, plunge into it the next. Hopeful that Greece would get another euro cent dropped into its begging bowl one day (and from a broader perspective the euro ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
... impasse in Washington. Tokyo rose 0.24 percent, or 22.14 points, to 9,388.94, Sydney gained 0.25 percent, or 11.2 points, to close at 4,424.2 but Seoul ended 0.15 percent, or 2.82 points, lower at 1,908.51. Hong Kong closed down 0.24 percent, or 52.17 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
... up six cents at $7.88. The spot price of gold in Sydney was $US1,750.60 per fine ounce, up $US20.05 from Friday's local close of $US1,730.55 per ounce. National turnover was 221.5 million securities worth $256.4 million, with 365 stocks up, 203 down ...