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Countplus blames profit loss on political uncertainty

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013
Countplus has reported a net profit after tax loss of 2% for financial year 2013 with its directors saying that the earnings were impacted by falling business confidence, in part due to the upcoming federal election. The group's profit is $11.08 million ...

Down, down, dollar down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
... overall US economic growth. It would hurt exporters and import competing industries and reduced the foreign earnings of US companies operating offshore when their revenues are translated back into US dollars. Sound familiar to us Australians, ey? This ...

Green, green grass of home

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... dividend as its massive reserves of shale gas," they see that America own technologies in high growth areas, they see US companies that are "protected in their home market and supercharged in export markets by a US dollar...", they see US firms holding ...

Can't help falling in love with stocks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... buying. Only last week, TrimTab's CEO Charles Biderman that, "while retail is being told to buy-buy-buy... insiders at US companies have bought the least amount of shares in any one month (Feb) and that the ratio of insider selling to buying is now 50-to-1 ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... against the yen, as traders mulled falling eurozone industrial output while waiting for 2012 earnings reports from US companies and comments by President Barack Obama on the US debt ceiling. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies slid 0.22 ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013
... financial year. NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks edged higher as investors waited for more indications on the health of US companies from earnings reports. Economic reports were mixed. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 37 points at 13,428 heading ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... Asian markets closed mixed as the effect of big Wall Street losses - sparked by weak reports and forecasts from top US companies - was offset by an improvement in Chinese manufacturing. However, selling was also given impetus by concerns over Spain as ...

BRICs plus four will drive world investment returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
... it's why GSAM refers to them as "growth economies". "It's not enough to be exposed to them through Australian or US companies, you need to own local companies," said Koch. She explained that exposure through proxies was reasonable for the past decade ...

Indonesia woos infra investment

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
... more development of the aviation infrastructure at large and so the government feels that this is one area where US companies can be most helpful." The US Commerce Service has partnered with Angkasa Pura, which manages 25 commercial airports in the country ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2012
Australian stocks opened flat on Monday, with weakness among gold and metals companies offset by a firmer start from the info tech sector. At 1027 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 0.6 points, or 0.01 per cent, at 4,272.5 points, while the ...