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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... economic slide may be ending. The Dow Jones Industrial Average vaulted above 9,000 for the first time since early January, gaining 188.03 points, or 2.12 per cent, to 9,069.29, the best close for blue chips since November 5. The technology-heavy Nasdaq ...

Best laid plan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... concerned about preventing the opposite from occuring. In other words, Benny is more worried about preventing deflation from gaining a foothold. Need I mention Japan's lost decade...and still counting? All because of falling prices. Deflation, after ...

TechInvest tops fastest growing fundie table

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
Sydney-based investment manager TechInvest is one of the fastest growing fund managers - gaining $78 million in flows to tip over the $100 million funds under management (FUM) mark over the past year. The latest Rainmaker Information Roundup report ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2009
... US data later in the week. London's FTSE 100 index climbed 53.02 points, or 1.25 per cent, to close at 4,294.03 points, gaining strength following a positive start to the trading day on Wall Street. FRANKFURT - The Dax added 108.62 points, or 2.27 per ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... Chinese state-owned company Chinalco is dead, advanced $6.60, or 9.87 per cent, to $73.50. Fortescue also skyrocketed, gaining 35 cents, or 12.5 per cent, to $3.15, after it sealed a deal gaining half of a BC Iron project in return for allowing access ...

Karara pulls retail strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... investment boutique, Karara Capital is putting the firm's push into the local retail market on ice and focussing it efforts on gaining more institutional mandates. This news comes after Karara Capital advised Standard & Poor's to withdraw the firm's ...

Diamonds are an investor's best friend

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
Move over bonds and cash - precious rocks, avant-garde art and collectible cars are now gaining favour as "alternative" investments for some of the world's richest high net worth investors. According to a London-based Datamonitor wealth investment analyst ...

FX trader guilty of $360k fraud

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... more than 200 south-east Queenslanders out of $360,000 in funds. Best, 39, pleaded guilty to one charge of dishonestly gaining a financial advantage for himself worth $30,000 and six charges of dishonestly gaining a financial advantage for Arafura Equities ...

Australian RMBS gains appeal

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... and while debt and distressed debt securities are currently still viewed favourably by them, Australian RMBS are swiftly gaining traction. "RMBS have been highly damaged through all the problems in the US and through the sub-prime noise," said Selby. ...

Kofoed leaves ESSSuper

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... organisation he has inspired the management team. His energy and negotiation skills were applied with great effect in gaining agreement to extending the range of products available to all members, and in developing state of the art online access for ...