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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... the economy. At 0844 AEST on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was up 11 points at 5,347. US companies added 208,000 workers in November. That followed a revised 233,000 gain the prior month, ADP Research Institute figures showed. ...

Financial Standard unveils Digital Dozen in social media

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
The 2014 finalists of the Financial Standard Social Media Influence, Leadership + Excellence Scholarship (or "the Smileys"), sponsored by Zurich and IRESS were announced today ahead of the awarding of the Scholarship in Sydney on Tuesday 13th November. ...

SSgA launches US equity ETF

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... leading investors for more than 20 years. It provides investors with instant access to a portfolio of more than 500 US companies. Its largest holdings include Apple, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson and General Electric. Amanda Skelly, head of SPDR ETFs ...

US insurance agency fined US$200,000

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
Highlighting how soft are the fines imposed on financial institutions by Australian regulators, in the US the aptly named Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has just ordered an insurance agency to pay US$200,000 for orchestrating illegal referrals. ...

Catholic Super awards $90 million to US microcap fund

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... investors have a dedicated investment in US microcap stocks. "With micro caps being around half of all publicly traded US companies, incorporating them in a broad equities program expands an investor's opportunity set and, with the benefit of time, should ...

Punishing Putin (harder)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... investment in Russia and invested $1.4 billion in a partnership with the Russian Sollis in 2011." Reuters lists other US companies "active in Russia": Chevron Corp, General Electric Co, Caterpillar Inc, John Deere, Mars, Cargill Inc, and Kraft Foods. ...

Mother doesn't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... Jobs" (Bloomberg). Well sort of. This is because the US employment report remains ambivalent at best. It was good. US companies added a bigger-than-expected 288,000 to their payrolls in March - the biggest increase since February 2012 - that followed ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014
... Offshore markets in the US and Europe were up overnight following positive sentiment, with nearly three-quarters of US companies beating earnings forecasts. IG market strategist Stan Shamu said expectations were for strong US jobs numbers out on Friday ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... market on Monday suffered one of its biggest falls of the year so far with investors worrying about the performance of US companies and instability in Ukraine. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index dropped 69.7 points, or 1.28 per cent, to 5,358.9. The broader ...

SEC reopens target date funds disclosure review

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... key segments. For example, the IAC noted that during 2012 target date fund FUM increased 29% and that about 70% of US companies with retirement schemes report offering target date funds as their default investment option.