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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
The Australian market is higher as news of Rio Tinto chief Tom Albanese's resignation drives up mining stocks. At 1028 AEDT on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 16.1 points, or 0.34 per cent, at 4,722.1 and the broader All Ordinaries index ...

Beggar me not my neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
Going for the ceiling. Sorry folks, this time it's not about the US debt ceiling. It's about Wall Street making another run for the all-time high it reached back before the GFC stood for the Geelong Football Club and not the Global Financial Crisis. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher following strong performances on Wall Street and European markets overnight following positive US economic data. At 0624 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was up 39 points at ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
The Australian market is expected to open higher after gains on Wall Street overnight. Stocks on major US indices enjoyed early gains before they were trimmed back by news that there had been no major progress by politicians toward a compromise on the ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
The Australian market looks set to open higher following Wall Street gains on optimism the looming "fiscal cliff" of automatic tax rises and spending cuts threatening the US with recession can be avoided. At 0643 AEDT on Thursday, the December share ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
The Australian market looks set to open flat following a quiet overnight session with Wall Street closed for the Thanksgiving holiday. At 0630 AEDT on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was up four points at 4,427. No major economic ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
The Australian market looks set to open higher following strong gains on international bourses amid hopes US political leaders will agree on a debt reduction plan to avoid the looming fiscal cliff of spending cuts and tax hikes which could send America ...

Retirement solution upside for investment managers: Oliver Wyman

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
An expected doubling of post-retirement funds under management (FUM) from 8% in 2010 to 16% by 2020, represents golden opportunities for investment managers, Jacob Hook of Oliver Wyman Financial Services advised delegates at IMCA's (Investment Management ...

Spain here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
Australians all, let's be afraid... be very afraid. We are heading down Spain's path to ruin. This is the recent spook being peddled by Standard & Poor's - you know the one, the credit-rater who gave what later turned out to be rubbish CDO's and other ...

Fool me not again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2012
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice... Has anybody heard about the US fiscal cliff? Of course everybody has. Nobody can miss it even if they try. Not you, not I, not Irene. Yes, not you too Virginia. It's all over... everywhere. Not when that ...