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Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
... Coast-based surfwear retailer Billabong are in a trading halt ahead of an update about a potential $287 million takeover by the American Sycamore consortium.

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
... equities news, Coca-Cola Amatil holds its annual general meeting, Orica chief executive Ian Smith is scheduled to address an American Chamber of Commerce in Australia lunch while Virgin Australia launches a new regional airline in WA. In Australia, the ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013
The Australian sharemarket has opened more than one per cent higher after strong US jobs numbers pushed American stocks to a record high and helped miners outperform the market. Official US Labor Department data showed the US economy added 165,000 jobs ...

Facebook users moving on

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
... young people, many of whom are beginning to adopt alternative platforms. Platforms such as Tumblr is used by 61% of North American teenagers, Twitter is used by 22%, Instagram by 21% and Snapchat by 13%. Facebook is still, however, used by 55%. Driving ...

May's not far away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013
... Morgan Stanley. No one wants to hear about the profit/revenue beats of Verizon, PepsiCo, Union Pacific, Peabody Corp or American Express. No one cared that Bloomberg's running earnings compilation showed that, "Of the 82 companies in the index that have ...

Missing the forest for the trees

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
Another day...another fresh record for the Dow. But... but, wasn't it only last week that financial markets were almost peeing their pants because America has turned the corner back into cactusville yet again? Remember what the headlines told us last ...

2011 and 2012 Redux?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2013

Cypriot banks to re-open sans banking

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
... not like Hotel California. You cannot check out anytime you like - heck, you wouldn't even be able to encash checks (American spelling). But you can leave in four days (says head of internal audit at the Central Bank of Cyprus, Yiangos Demetriou) or ...

I was there!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... lining up to take their money out of ATMs, Americans are getting their old ATMs re-filled. According to Bloomberg, "More American homeowners will be able to use their properties as cash machines again after real estate equity jumped last year by the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013
... international merchandise imports for February. In equities news, Webjet managing director John Guscic is scheduled to address American Chamber of Commerce in Australia lunch in Sydney, and in Perth, Roy Hill chief executive Barry Fitzgerald, Atlas Iron ...