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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
The Australian market has received strong, positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with key indices on Wall Street and in Europe clearly higher. Oil and precious metals fell, as investors turned away from their search for safe havens. On the ...

Queen Qaddafi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
Oil is the word, is the word, is the word. Yup there's no turning the pages of the political, economic and financial news without seeing the letters O-I-L these days. And all because of "Queen" Qaddafi's (UK's The Telegraph reported that he "pleaded ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
The Australian stock market opened lower after world equity markets slumped as investors worried about higher oil prices due to violent unrest in Libya. At 1015 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 23.5 points, or 0.49 per cent, at 4822.4 ...

Bad news bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
ave the grizzlies driven the dip buyers away? Americans came back from their President's Day holiday and saw that nervy days are back again. The S&P 500 index dropped by 2.1 per cent overnight - its biggest in 6 months - and the VIX or "fear index" ...

Paraplanners master SoAs with COIN

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
Financial planning software provider COIN has launched training courses for paraplanners, which could go some way to increasing the upskilling in the profession. The three-day courses, Paraplanning Fundamentals, are run in conjunction with outsourced ...

1989 redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
Revolting like it's 1989. It's the feeling I get when I look to the Middle East. Just like in 1989, several regimes in one region became a thing of the past as civil uprisings in one country emboldened protests in another... then another. Back then ...

Market Wrap - Morning

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
The Australian market has received positive leads from diverse markets in offshore trading overnight, with all key securities indices higher, as well as precious and industrial metals and oil. On the ASX 24 at 0828 AEDT, the March share price index ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
The Australian market is receiving negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with Wall Street's key indices all clearly lower, along with oil, although precious metals were higher. On the ASX 24 at 0714 AEDT, the March share price index futures ...

AvSuper crunches numbers with new calculator

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... well," said Michelle Griffiths, AvSuper chief executive. The calculator is fully integrated between compliance, workflow and SOA without data duplication, which can slow online tools. Super funds AUSCOAL and Maritime Super have also launched education ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
The Australian market is receiving generally positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with all key Wall Street indices higher, although gold was flat and oil was lower. Copper hit a record high. On the ASX 24 at 0710 AEDT, the March share price ...