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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2007
The Australian stock market has received a mixed lead from overnight trading overseas, buoyed by oil, gold and other precious metals which surged, but weighed by a weak lead from Wall Street securities. At 0830 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the ...

NZ Super Fund defends Myanmar investment

The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has come under fire from local non-government organisations (NGOs) for its shareholdings in Total S.A., a French oil company with operations in Myanmar. But the guardians of New Zealand superannuation chief executive ...

The long hot summer

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2007
... frequent, particularly in the south-west with a likely increase in evaporation rates, particularly in the north and east. High-fire-danger weather will probably increase in the south-east while tropical cyclones are likely to become more intense and ...

Franklin Templeton appoints real estate exec

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2007
... appointment is material to the group's Melbourne subsidiary which launched the Franklin International Real Estate Fund 3 (FIRE Fund 3) in July, a fund that gives Australian institutional investors access to global private real estate.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2007
... 2,683.45. LONDON - Britain's index of leading shares, the FTSE 100, shed one per cent, with oil and mining stocks failing to fire and troubled British bank Northern Rock falling with reports it could withhold its dividend. The FTSE 100 finished 69.00 ...

Tawrrific APEC and the Berlin Wall

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2007
... President Dick Cheney's visit earlier this year. Those involved in security arrangements have been diligently practising their fire drills and the biggest counter-terrorism operation in Australia's history complete with full dress rehearsals. APEC has ...

GMO small caps downgraded by Morningstar

GMO's Australian small cap shares funds have been downgraded by Morningstar after the departure of former head of equities Max Cappetta and head of equity research Anthony Corr. "They're a big loss to the firm, and while GMO has sizeable resources ...

Concepts in risk 101

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2007
... recouping more than US$360 billion in value and bargain hunters were out in force, buying up stocks made cheaper by a two-week fire sale. The New York investment research firm, Graham Fisher, has gone so far as to compare the current sub-prime calamity ...

A smoking gun for the RBA

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2007
A pre-poll rate hike could be a shot across the bow of the coalition's election campaign love-boat, however a sooner rather than later approach to monetary tightening might make less of a splash. With second quarter headline inflation surging past the ...

Basis Capital suspends yield fund

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2007
... further market falls. If the extent of the damage goes deeper than that Basis would be forced into a potentially damaging fire sale of illiquid assets whose value is under pressure. Basis Capital did not return calls yesterday. Funds and consultants ...