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Midday Market Wrap: Wall Street encourages Australian shares; dollar strong

The Australian share market, led by the banks, media and miners, continued to move higher to noon, encouraged by the solid rise on Wall Street overnight. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index improved 27.8 points to 3187.0 while the all ordinaries added 27.6 ...

Afternoon market wrap: $A rockets to five-and-a-half year high

The Australian dollar rocketed to its highest level in five-and-a-half years today and looks set to fly past 70 US cents this year. Its faster than expected rise has some currency experts now raising their expectations about how high the local dollar ...

Company taxes feed $7.5 billion budget surplus: Costello

Australia's 2002/03 Budget surplus of $7.5 billion is largely due to better than expected company taxes, according to Treasurer Peter Costello. Australia's 2002/03 Budget produced a final surplus of $7.5 billion, compared to the $3.9 billion surplus ...

New appointment at Advance

Advance Funds Management has appointed Sue Mieog to the position of head of product. Ms Mieog was previously manager - employer super at ING and was also a senior product manager at BT for several years. Ms Mieog said she was committed to taking Advance ...

Morningstar awards five stars to AXA Bernstein's value-style investment

Morningstar has awarded five stars to AXA's Sanford and Bernstein value-style international equities investment management process, citing clear articulation, extensive pre-investment debate and screening and its centralised decision-making group. Bernstein ...

Morning market wrap: US shares weather bombings

Major US share market indexes rose overnight, although two separate bombings in the Middle East and a disappointing earnings report after the market from Hewlett-Packard have raised the spectre of renewed risk aversion. Shares in HP fell by over 10% ...

Midday market wrap: Australian shares push higher

The Australian share market was trading close to a 12 month high in the morning session, following strong gains overnight in major international markets. In the US the Dow Jones index pushed to the highest level in 14 months, while in London the FTSE ...

Morning market wrap: Dow Jones index jumps to 14-month high

Major US share market indexes climbed higher overnight, as investors continued to gain confidence in the strength of the economic and earnings recovery. In contrast to the last few weeks, moreover, the bond market proved little obstacle to higher share ...

Morning market wrap: Power blackout hits US share price futures, supports bonds

US stocks finished higher overnight, although a power outage across large parts of the eastern US and Canada sent share price futures lower after the close of the regular trading session. US bond yields also fell sharply with the blackout, although ...

Morning market wrap: US bonds down on strong data

US bond yields jumped to the highest level in a year, as a report from the US Commerce Department showed retail sales surged by 1.4% in July. The consensus of markets forecasts was for an increase of just 0.9%, while the same report also included substantial ...