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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... large gains included Facebook (+3.7 per cent), Microsoft (+2.3 per cent) and many biotechnology stocks, including Gilead Sciences (+2.2 per cent). Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores gained 0.7 per cent as it unveiled a test program in the US to give online ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... members Apple and Intel fell 2.3 per cent and 2.4 per cent, respectively, while Google dropped 1.9 per cent and Gilead Sciences shed 2.5 per cent. Exceptions included Netflix (+1.9 per cent), which was upgraded by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Tesla ...

PBOC to QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... for lower interest bonds. It gained greater traction (and amount) following comments made by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences researcher Liu Yihui that he expects the Ministry of Finance to allow as much as 10 trillion yuan (US$1.6 trillion) to be ...

Global healing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... since December. Similarly, why do expectations for stimulus remain in China? According to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences "Premier Li Keqiang said there won't be strong stimulus, but he didn't say there won't be any stimulus".... and in the eurozone? ...

PROFILE: MetLife head of distribution Michael Gooddall

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... pragmatic turn. "There were so many unemployed teachers when I came out of the system in 1981, especially in the social sciences, that I thought 'I'll just go and get a job," he remembers. Goodall ended up in marketing for New South Wales Government ...

It's good, it's bad, it's faked

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014

Cognitive function, consumption biggest SMSF risks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013
... The ABC has reported the results of a scientific study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Dr Agnieszka Tymula of the University of Sydney and colleagues at New York University and Yale's School of Medicine that ...

Demographic megatrends drive earnings well into the future

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013
... multiplier effect on products such as grain to feed livestock," Natoff continued. "Demography is one of the few social sciences where projections can be made with a relatively high level of certainty." With the rapid rise in spending levels across developing ...

Government plants $60m innovation funding seed

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... Partners. Private investors are matching the government's investment in the funds that will help innovative new life sciences, IT and medical research companies get off the ground. Under the IIF programme, venture capital funds receive a ten year licence ...

Towers Watson looks to non-life insurance

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010