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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 ...

Bail-out Plan B

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
Has the US Treasury had a change of heart or merely trying to get on the good side of its boss-elect President Obama? The US$700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) will no longer buy the TA (troubled assets) under the RP (relief program). ...

Banks to reprioritise IT spending

THESHEET.COM WITH ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
... financial performance. "Obviously some people will always complain about fee structures but lending institutions can take heart from the fact more than 40 per cent of respondents to the survey were happy with their performance," she said. "However, there ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... per cent, to 14,243.43 points. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket continued an unrelenting slide but brokers took heart from a reasonably solid recovery by Telecom. The benchmark NZSX-50 index closed down 48.484 points, or 1.7 per cent, at 2791 ...

Rainy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... This is classic 'saving for a rainy day' in action. And today it is pouring. Australian equity investors should also take heart from the fact that the Reserve Bank has still plenty of wriggle room to lower borrowing costs. The RBA has lowered interest ...

More pain for insurance firms

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... Mahoney argues that the insurance industry has done "pretty well" compared to the investment banking industry, but at the heart of more troubled waters is the issue of depleting assets of insurance firms. "There isn't an insurance or reinsurance company ...