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IMF - It Means Fun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... audience at the Valencian Business Confederation in Spain that, "The overall picture then is that we expect growth in the advanced economies to slow but not stop..." It didn't stop alright and the global economy contracted. Actual result -- world growth ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... fell 1.06 per cent, or 93.71 points, to 8,769.59. Hong Kong rose 0.54 per cent, or 112.72 points, to 20,937.28. Shanghai advanced 1.97 per cent, or 40.81 points, to 2,115.23, with the market also helped by a huge central bank injection of funds aimed ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... ANZ was up 16 cents at $25.15, CBA had gained nine cents to $46.01, NAB was 25 cents higher at $26.06 and Westpac had advanced 12 cents to $25.28. "The banking sector is underpinning our market, there is no doubt about that," Mr Smith said. The spot ...

Market wrap - AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... per cent to 7,326.73 points and in Paris the CAC 40 jumped by 2.39 per cent to 3,434.98 points. Madrid's IBEX 35 index advanced 0.98 per cent to 7,784.10 points. Sentiment was lifted in part by the announcement on Monday that Swiss mining group Xstrata ...

Market Wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... showed manufacturing in China was still shrinking. Tokyo on Friday rose 0.25 per cent, or 23.02 points, to 9,110.00, Seoul advanced 0.60 per cent, or 12.04 points, to 2,002.37, and Sydney also added 0.25 per cent, or 11.1 points, to 4,408.3. Hong Kong ...

Family businesses provide engine for recovery

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
... ESG sustainability issues to be high on the agenda. While the majority of family businesses involved in the survey are advanced in terms of generation (third, fourth or older), relatively few (29%) were found to have family offices, with listed family ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
... by the stimulus in Japan and positive US housing data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.1 per cent, the S&P500 advanced 0.12 per cent and the NASDAQ gained 0.15 per cent. locally, national turnover was 729.5 million securities worth $3.2 billion ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... offshore session higher. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P500 both gained 0.4 per cent, while the NASDAQ Composite advanced 0.89 per cent. Futures contract prices for key commodities such as oil, gold and copper also settled firmer in US trade. ...

Greater teamwork for ESG: Towers Watson

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... under-powered economic growth, resource scarcity and ageing demographics in order to reach their performance potential. This advanced planning of adaptive strategies - to secure good results for current and future generations of stakeholders - lies at ...

Brokerage domination chokes competition: Paritech

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... should they spend money when they own the market and they're not losing clients to anybody? In the US you find much more advanced products for self-directed investors because it is a more divided market."