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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
... on the Sydney Futures Exchange was down 46 points at 3,650. In news today, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) releases minutes of its November 4 board meeting. The Australian Office of Financial Management announces details of Treasury bond tender. ...

Mass modular advice to boost savings

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
... Australians boost their retirement savings through "mass advice", a new advice service that can be delivered in 15 to 40 minutes without falling foul of ASIC regulation. ASFA research released last year shows that more than 10 out of 16 million working ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2008
... preliminary closing figures. LONDON - UK stocks declined in afternoon trade on Monday but recovered going into the last minutes of trading. The FTSE 100-share index closed up 65.94, or 1.51 per cent, at 4,443.28 points. FRANKFURT - The German DAX added ...

SimCorp scoops Vendor of the Year award

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
... chief executive Peter Ravn said that a data audit that took three days to do on the old spreadsheet system only took 15 minutes using SimCorp Dimension. The software also allows fund managers to add new instruments at any time, which can then be managed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... The broad Standard & Poor's 500 index slid 30.35 points, 3.08 per cent, to 955.05. Most of the falls came in the last 45 minutes of trading. Until then, the major indices were down about 0.6 per cent. LONDON - European stock markets had a mixed performance ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
... Glenn Stevens will speak to the Trans Tasman business circle on Australia, New Zealand and the international economy. Minutes of the RBA's October 7 board meeting will be released. The Australian Bureau of Statistics will release motor vehicle sales ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
... Jones industrial average closed 401.35 points higher, or 4.68 per cent, to 8,979.26, after falling 380 in the opening minutes of the session. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 38.59, or 4.25 per cent, to 946.43, and the Nasdaq composite index rose ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
... giving in to a last-hour wave of buying. The Dow Jones industrials ended up 400 points, after falling 380 in the opening minutes of the session. It is clear that investors are reacting in the extreme to negative any economic news, including disappointing ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
... optimists might think. "It's a great start, but this mess took years to create and you're not going to fix it in five minutes." Among the miners, BHP Billiton lost five cents, or 0.17 per cent, to $29.85, while takeover target Rio Tinto declined $1.84 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
... less than on other markets. The NZSX-50 index closed down 55.881 points, or 1.86 per cent, at 2948.31. In the first few minutes of trading this morning, the NZ market was another half a per cent lower, by 15.539 points at 2,932.771.