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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
The Australian market looks set to open lower despite gains on Wall Street which rose as fears of an imminent strike against Syria receded. An upgrade to US second-quarter economic growth, also helped US markets. It came in at an annual rate of 2.5 ...

New $9 million super research facility opens

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
A new $9 million research program between the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and four universities has been launched today. The CSIRO-Monash Superannuation Research Cluster has been funded jointly with $3 million coming ...

Delay of execution

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
I thought this would happen, but not to happen so soon. Yes Virginia, Wall Street's reaction to the looming war with Syria is playing out according to the script of the 1991 Iraq War and its 2003 sequel. There's the sell orders that comes with the anxiety ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
The Australian market looks set to open flat after Wall Street made modest gains but European bourses fell amid nervousness over possible action against Syria. At 0800 AEST on Thursday, the September share price index futures contract was up one point ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013
The local share market has opened higher after solid gains on Wall Street overnight and encouraging Chinese manufacturing data. At 1020 AEST on Friday, the All Ordinaries was up 33.5 points, or 0.66 per cent, at 5,100. IG market strategist Evan Lucas ...

US foreign exchange group sets up in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2013
Toronto-based foreign exchange and global payments company Cambridge Mercantile Group has opened its Asia Pacific regional office in Sydney, recognising the increasing importance of the local currency. Cambridge said a strong economy has seen the Australian ...

AMP buys into QLD school build project

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2013

ASIC bans broker for deceptive conduct

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned a Perth-based insurance broker after it found he had engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct. ASIC found that John Andrew Barr, of Darlington, Western Australia ...

R&D focus giving Asian companies greater pricing power

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
A dramatic increase in the amount Asian companies are spending on research and development means many are fast becoming world beaters, according to one Fidelity portfolio manager. Presenting to more than 300 advisers at an event in Sydney with regional ...

Vale Aberdeen's Wallace and McMenigall

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013