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AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
... The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 30.34 (0.19 per cent) to finish Friday at 15,658.36. The broad-market S&P 500 advanced 2.80 (0.16 per cent) to 1,709.67. Both the Dow and S&P set all-time closing records. And the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite rose ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
... or 17.16 points, to close at 1,917.05. Shanghai added 0.70 per cent, or 13.76 points, to end at 1,990.06 and Hong Kong advanced 0.48 per cent, or 103.81 points, to 21,953.96. Investors are sitting on the sidelines before the Fed's policy statement on ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013
... earnings results. LONDON - European stock markets mostly fell, as investors digested mixed company results, but Paris advanced amid a rosier outlook, analysts say. In London, the FTSE 100 index of leading shares lost 0.50 per cent to end at 6,554.79 ...

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LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... that the Fed plans to scale back its bond-buying program, but only when the economy improves. LONDON - European shares advanced on unexpectedly positive US jobs data and more expected testimony from US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke that he had no ...

FPA sets out opposition to self-education cap

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... proposes to increase competency and training standards for advisers. The paper suggests that advisers should have an advanced diploma level from 2015 and a university degree level from 2019. The FPA estimates that an advance diploma on Financial Planning ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
... another record-breaking finish on Wall Street. Shanghai added 0.98 per cent, or 19.90 points, to 2,059.39 and Hong Kong advanced 0.12 per cent, or 26.03 points, to 21,303.31, while Seoul closed 0.28 per cent, or 5.18 points, higher at 1,875.16. Tokyo ...

WB advisers join CBA's Financial Wisdom

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... development of the Agentia SMA platform for adviser and affiliated adviser use and continued support and development for the advanced WB Xplan site," Connelly said. WB Financial add to the 13 former Whittaker Macnaught adviser practices which joined ...

Reversing fortunes to another crisis?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013

Is that a fiscal stimulus I smell?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... the 1980s and 1990s, it is what the Rudd government did in the global financial crisis more successfully than any other advanced economy." Can't wait for my handouts. Whoopsie, fiscal stimulus to get the economy going again...with or without China.

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... Dow Jones Industrial Average on Monday finished up 109.67 points (0.73 per cent) at 15,179.85. The broad-based S&P 500 advanced 12.31 (0.76 per cent) to 1,639.04, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite jumped 28.57 (0.83 per cent) to 3,452.13. Stocks ended ...