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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
The Australian market looks set to open higher, after wall overnight closed up two per cent as upbeat US consumer spending figures lifted hopes that economic growth will pick up and Hurricane Irene caused less damage than feared. At 0714 AEST on Tuesday ...

IOOF profits soar despite difficult times

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2011
Diversified financial group IOOF has reported statutory net profits after tax have risen by 28.4% to $99.5 million in its annual results released today. Chris Kelaher, managing director of IOOF, said it was a very pleasing result and had come despite ...

Good news from bad stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
When you're happy and you know it - click on the buy button. The 24-hour cycle saw most major equity indices soar up, up and away - from Asia to Europe to America. Are we witnessing the beginning of the beginnings of another leg up in equities or will ...

Willing America into a dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
Are we there yet? This question seems to be in everyone's mind at the moment. There here means an American recession and perhaps a European one. I must admit that despite checking up on the indicators that the US National Bureau of Economic Research ...

Wealth performs steadily as CBA profits soar

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
Commonwealth Bank of Australia's wealth management division reported after tax net profit of $642 million for the financial year ended June 30 2011, while the wider group netted a 12% cash profit boost. Wealth Management had net operating income of ...

Stocks in freefall on recession fears, banks cut mortgage rates

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
Investors panicked sending the Australian stock market into freefall and bond markets soaring, following large losses on Wall Street. In morning trade, the All Ordinaries index plummeted 211.2 points or 5.21% to 3845.5, while the S&P/ASX 200 lapsed ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
The Australian share market had clawed back some losses at noon after Standard and Poor's downgraded the United States credit rating for the first time in history over the weekend. After plunging four per cent on Friday, the local bourse was down more ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
Australian shares are soaring after the United States avoided a debt default with an eleventh hour agreement to cut its deficit. President Barack Obama said the deal will cut about $US1 trillion in spending over 10 years and avoid default, which would ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
The Australian share market is expected to decline after US stocks fell on a White House threat to veto legislation that would avert a US debt default. But Australian resource stocks may gain after the price of metals and oil rose. At 0826 AEST on the ...

No way USA can't repay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
Chicken Little's back! It's back telling everyone who cares to listen that "the sky is falling". Chicken Little knows. "I saw it with my eyes, I heard it with my ears, and a bit of it fell on my head" (The Sky is Falling) as it watched the Democrats ...