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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012
... People have still got it in the back of their head that the Greek elections are coming up," he said. "It will definitely be a major event." US stocks bounced back overnight, reversing the previous day's losses while shrugging off the spectre of more ...

Advisers ready to move clients back to equities

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012
Zurich's investment business in Australia has released new findings that show more than half of advisers surveyed are ready to re-balance their customers' portfolios to hold less cash. The nationwide survey of 200 advisers showed that 68% indicated ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012
... proposal. In local economic news on Wednesday, the Westpac/Melbourne Institute Survey of Consumer Sentiment is due out. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Tuesday finished slightly higher despite big falls on overseas markets ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
... Report says. "We'll probably get a better idea as to where this market's going to go later on this afternoon," he said. Major US and European bourses rallied in reaction to Spain's banking bailout, but the euphoria was short-lived as the reality of more ...

Spanish bailout soured by upcoming Greek election

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
... in the market because that would mean Greece not complying with its rescue plan from July last year and then there is a major possibility of Greece having to abandon the euro," Daniel Pingarron Salazar, market strategist at IG Markets, told AAP. Spain's ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... Europe, agency Fitch Ratings cut Spain's credit rating by three notches to just above junk bond status. In local trading, gold major Newcrest Mining lost $1.05 or 4.07 per cent, to $24.73 after the gold price fell 2.4 per cent in offshore markets overnight ...

Goodman partners with Malaysian pension fund

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... 40/60 basis. The Employees Provident Fund (EPF), one of Malaysia's largest pension funds, will hold the majority share. "Major global investors continue to target high-quality income producing investments in a structure that provides access to a specialist ...

PM rejects lifting retirement age to 70

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... The Grattan Institute today released a report 'Game Changers: Economic Reform Priorities for Australia' that explored 25 major economic reform scenarios and found that optimising the tax mix and encouraging labour force participation among older Australians ...

CSIRO questions Aus economy after the boom ends

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... Investors' cited the rise of a middle class in rapidly growing nations such as India as a chance for Australia to become a major services provider as our commodities output declines. As Asian countries become wealthier and people move up through the ...

Daly: Forced out of AFS after rejecting downsize

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2012
... the time." "Having spent eight years trying to build AFS, the last thing I want to see is AFS pulled down." Daly, still a major shareholder in AFS, is taking his former employer to court over what he believes is an unfair dismissal. "We believe we have ...