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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2007
... fell 2.5 per cent after Citigroup said Goldman's subprime mortgage bonds issued last year were being downgraded at the fastest rate of any issuer. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 8.21 points, or 0.06 per cent, at 13,352.05, while the Standard ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2007
... fell 2.5 per cent after Citigroup said Goldman's subprime mortgage bonds issued last year are being downgraded at the fastest rate of any issuer. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 8.21 points, or 0.06 per cent, at 13,352.05, while the Standard ...

Praemium/BlackRock hits $100m

... Praemium managing director. "Whilst it's early days yet, we believe that this shows that the Praemium/BlackRock SMA is the fastest growing SMA available to Australian investors." Maurice O'Shannassy, BlackRock Investment Managers managing director, said ...

Economic round-up: Greenspan versus the poet

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2007
... less influence than he's given credit for with his economic observations. Trying to turn down the heat on the world's fastest-growing major economy, China's Premier Wen Jiabao relies on a team of technical advisors led by central bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan ...

Economic round-up: Kiwis at war with inflation

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2007
... house sales rise 8.1 per cent in April from the same period in 2006. First retail sales grew in the March quarter at their fastest since the statistics series started in 1995. This is a contrast with Australia's unbalanced house sales - going gangbusters ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
... concerns spurred investors to lock in profits from the market's recent rally. News that sales of new homes climbed at their fastest pace in 14 years signalled that a slowdown in housing may have bottomed out, but it also put the Fed's cut in official ...

Mercer appoints new financial advice leader

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2007
... commitment and the breadth of our aspiration in the financial advice domain". "Our financial advice business is now one of the fastest growing areas of Mercer Wealth Solutions. Working with our financial advice management team, including the recently ...

Economic round-up: Money cant buy you love

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2007
... price index climbed only 1 per cent from the fourth quarter. Australia's economy is in its 16th year of growth with the fastest employment growth in 17 years and this has been feeding consumer confidence. It has also feeding economic expansion without ...

Mile high wages club to soar

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
... economists surveyed by Bloomberg News. If this estimate is on the mark both the quarterly and annual growth rates would be the fastest in the nine year history of the wage price index. With yet another cheap airline planning to land in Australia this ...

A fist full of dollars

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2007
... government's generosity, which is clearly intended to court the electorate, does boost consumer spending - already growing at its fastest in over three years - that may stoke inflation and prompt the Reserve Bank of Australia to add to its three interest-rate ...