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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
... by news that Hewlett-Packard Co was scaling back its 2009 forecast. The Dow Jones industrial average has been dangerously close to its late November lows all week after tumbling 300 points on Tuesday, barely budging Wednesday and sliding again on Thursday. ...

Residential property wins

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
Residential property investment is the highest performing asset class over the last 20 years according to latest research, and one way to access it is to buy into pooled residential property funds. Lee Hughes, analyst at property research specialist ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... cent to $6.65. The spot price of gold in Sydney was trading at $US980.10 per fine ounce, up $US6.80 on Wednesday's local close of $US973.30.

National clearing house shake-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
As the government moves closer to firming up its plans for how to deliver its national superannuation clearing house, new models are emerging regarding how it could be done. In the May Budget last year, the Rudd government announced it had allocated ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... 1,473.83. LONDON - European stock markets slipped, with the London FTSE 100 index losing 0.68 per cent, or 27.3 points, to close at 4,006.83. FRANKFURT - The DAX fell 0.28 per cent, or 11.64 points, to 4,204.96. PARIS - The CAC 40 index was stable, losing ...

Mercer buys Callan Associates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... provide call centre, administration and online services to the fund in February last year. The transaction is expected to close at the end of the first quarter this year and is subject to customary approvals and conditions.

Drinking is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... much of a sceptic. Perhaps the G-7 has developed a concrete plan to turn the global financial crisis around hatched behind close doors. Perhaps not. For if they did, it would have been proudly broadcast around the globe. Just think of the feel good effect ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... effectiveness of the US economic stimulus package. In London, the FTSE 100 index lost 2.43 per cent, or 100.62 points, to close at 4,034.13. FRANKFURT - The German Dax fell 3.44 per cent, or 150.04 points, to 4,216.6. PARIS - The CAC 40 shed 86.99 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... the President's Day public holiday. On Friday, stocks ended lower, pushing the Dow Jones industrial average to its lowest close since last November and leaving it with a weekly decline of 5.2 per cent. The Dow fell 82.35, or 1.04 per cent, to 7,850.41. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... or 1.1 per cent to 3,496.7. NEW YORK - Stocks ended lower Friday, pushing the Dow Jones industrial average to its lowest close since last November and leaving it with a weekly decline of 5.2 per cent. The gears are moving in Washington. On Friday, the ...