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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
... 13.75, or 0.10 per cent, to 13,130.92 points. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand share market strengthened after Wall Street took heart from new Federal Reserve moves to resuscitate the ailing United States economy. New Zealand's benchmark NZSX-50 index closed ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... in the week, France's CAC-40 jumped by 5 per cent and the German DAX soared by 7.1 per cent. So why the sudden change of heart? Well, according to Bloomberg, the ugly US payrolls number in January 'would force Congress to reach a compromise on President ...

Darkest before dawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... of more 'unknown unknowns', investors cannot be faulted for cowering under their mattresses. Some have already suffered heart attacks, others just simply gave up and committed hara kiri (honourable suicide). It's death by a thousand cuts. And in this ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... surged more than three per cent Monday, boosted by better-than-expected US data and by banking shares as investors took heart from positive news from the Barclays group. The London FTSE 100 index gained 156.54 points or 3.86 per cent to close at 4,209.01 ...

Obama: he's the man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... of our Gross Domestic Product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good. As for our common defence, we reject as false ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
The Australian stock market may gain after US equities and commodity prices rose on Friday. At 0735 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March Share Price Index futures contract was up ten points at 3,534. In economic news, the Australian Bureau ...

Wiki me happy

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
... explained, not to mention online media is cheaper that print or TV advertising. One investments firm that has taken Web 2.0 to heart is MLC, which this year won the Vignette Excellence Awards. After 10 years of using Vignette's imaging and workflow solutions ...

Faster than the speed of fright

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
... on data warehousing and reporting - at up to 65 per cent less cost than existing products. According to the group, at the heart of the solution is Sybase IQ, a column-based analytical database that can process complex OLAP queries 10 to 100-times faster ...

Good news at last for AIG

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
... permanent disablement (TPD) insurance in the future if specific events occur. The definitions for coronary artery angioplasty, heart attack and heart valve surgery have all been revised and enhanced from December while the firm also announced a $10 million ...

US resi housing collapse hits CalPERS

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
The $296 billion California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has suffered a 35 per cent write-down in the market value of its $15 billion residential housing portfolio. Latest figures from CalPERS' assessment of its housing portfolio showed ...