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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
The Australian stock market is likely to open weaker on Thursday after a fall on Wall Street overnight. At 0741 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was down 23 points at 4,485 points. In economics news on Thursday ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
The Australian stock market is expected to open higher after gains on Wall Street on Friday. At 0725 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was up 40 points at 4,476 points, on volume of 3,136 contracts. In economics ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
Australian markets have received mixed leads from offshore trading overnight. At 0744 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 16 points lower at 4,429. In economic news, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2010
The Australian share market is likely to open the week moderately higher, after it received positive leads from major world markets on Friday. At 0735 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was eight points higher ...

SG survives mining tax deal

ALEX DUNNIN, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
The government and large miners have negotiated a breakthrough compromise deal on the mining tax that not only keeps the broad structure of the tax in place but saves most of its benefits, especially the SG uplift. Driving the negotiations were Deputy ...

First femme PM

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
The morning after. Either you're still reading the obituaries and the political assassination of Kevin Rudd or you have moved on to congratulate Australia's first femme PM - Julia Gillard. I won't bore you with the details. Pick up any local daily or ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
The Australian market has received flat to negative leads from overnight trading offshore. Wall Street's key indices were flat, but commodities were lower, as were European markets. At 0732 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, however, the September ...

Don't limit adviser choice: Synchron

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
Synchron has renewed calls for firms to not limit advisers to a 'tight' list of platforms, products or risk providers to chase volume bonuses. In a press release, Synchron said it was not in advisers or their clients' best interest to artificially limit ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
The Australian share market is set to open slightly higher on Thursday as BP's agreement on a $US20 billion fund for victims of the United States oil spill lifted Wall Street to a modest gain. At 0737 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share ...

Mercer appoints CIO in UK

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
Mercer has appointed investment veteran Bill Muysken to the new role of chief investment officer for alternative alpha strategies, based in the UK. Muysken rejoins Mercer after spending the last three years in the hedge fund industry. He spent the early ...