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SimCorp edges back to front

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2008
Financial service technology provider SimCorp is expanding its front-end technology offering to provide a more streamlined information product to its clients. Peter Hill, managing director at SimCorp, said the company previously offered a front of house ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
... The media speculation by a CNBC reporter came in the last hour of trade, reversing 1.5 per cent gains triggered by an aggressive interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 37.47 points, or 0.30 per cent, to 12,442.83. ...

Oil sours economic rally

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
A recently released PricewaterhouseCoopers survey reveals that senior executives have replaced terrorism with risk of energy supply as a primary concern in 2008. Leading oil-importing economies that share these concerns meet today in the Swiss resort ...

What US recession?

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
... The Fed, by the end of this month, will cut 150 basis points before the 'recession', and the Fed have never been that aggressive before." "The same thing is true with fiscal policy. I think the odds of a major fiscal package being passed in the next ...

Market wrap - midday

... driven by banking stocks," he said. "Its great to see us in the black... We'll take it while we can. "There has been an aggressive sell over last week, so you would expect some steadying in the market." Among the major banks, the National Australia Bank ...

Centro appoints new head

... more conservative management style, which is something that is not consistent with Andrew Scott's style, who is a more aggressive leader." But the move has failed to allay investor fears with shares in the listed business falling another 27 per cent ...

When a lift in unemployment is good news

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2007
An economy moving to full employment has big implications for economic policy and how we should read the macro indicators. In a major speech to the NSW Economic Society this week, Dr Steven Kennedy from the Commonwealth Treasury said while the most ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
... lower overnight after disappointment there that the US Federal Reserve's quarter of a percentage point rate cut was not aggressive enough. "The markets have taken that news quite badly," Mr Wacher said. As well softer commodity prices overnight, especially ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
... decision to cut interest rates by a quarter point to 4.25 per cent, disappointing investors who had hoped for a more aggressive reduction. At 0800 AEDT, on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index was down 104 points to 6596. Today ...

Singapore and ME fund swoop on UBS

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
... been and why the US government is so desperate to salvage the situation with their recently announced bail-out and aggressive interest rate intervention. The capital injection is more than enough to offset the UBS write down of US$10 billion in the value ...