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Past performance is misleading advertising: ASIC

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2006
... 2003 ASIC issued its Guide on the Use of Past Performance in Promotional Material. It gave guidance that advertising materials using past performance should include five year returns or the longest reasonable period available if less than that, they ...

Cash becomes king with inflation on the up

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2006
... and is now running at its highest level in six years, reflecting high production prices due to the rising cost of raw materials and petrol," said Oliver. "The fear is that it will flow downstream to consumers and we are predicting a CPI rise of 1 per ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2006
... executive David Morgan speaks in Sydney, while Bravura Solutions lists on the ASX and BHP Billiton hosts a carbon steel materials briefing. NEW YORK - US stocks fell more than one per cent amid of uncertainty about further interest rate hikes. The Fed ...

Back to bonds: EPFR

... sub-groups that have bucked the trend including US small cap funds and the three global sector fund groups: commodities/materials, real estate and utilities. The Massachusetts-based company tracks equity and bond fund flows, cross border capital flows ...

Tyndall appoints senior analyst from Credit Suisse

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2006
... research team, which is headed up by Warwick Cumming. Collison worked with Credit Suisse ad head of global building materials research and from 2003 to 2006 was ranked first or second in the Institutional Investor and Extel surveys of analysts. He was ...

Weekly economic round-up

... Higher energy prices represent a tax on both businesses and consumers alike. Companies suffer as the price of their raw materials and cost of production increase. To maintain profit margins, they react by cutting costs elsewhere -- most probably by freezing ...

Daily economic update

... Higher energy prices represent a tax on both businesses and consumers alike. Companies suffer as the price of their raw materials and cost of production increase. To maintain profit margins, they react by cutting costs elsewhere -- most probably by freezing ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2006
... two months. Leading the Nasdaq's decline were Internet stocks such as Google and semiconductor shares such as Applied Materials on concerns about slower corporate technology spending. Oil struck a seven-month high above $US69 a barrel and some analysts ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2006
... losses after Banc of America Securities and UBS cut their price targets on the semiconductor equipment maker Applied Materials. Shares of Boeing, a Dow component, hit an all-time high on hopes for more plane orders. The Dow Jones industrial average was ...

Daily economic update

... quarters. Production increased in seven of 12 sectors led by higher output in the food and beverages and construction materials sector. Production dropped sharply in transport equipment and clothing and footwear. Total sales were flat after recording ...