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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
The Australian stock market was up at noon, with the major miners driving the local bourse higher. At 1200 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was up 67.7 points or 1.23 per cent higher at 5570.6, while the broader All Ordinaries gained 63.3 points or 1.14 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher after US stocks gained overnight. Resource stocks may decline after commodity prices fell overnight, however. At 0706 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index futures contract ...

CalPERS calls for ratings overhaul

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
The US' largest pension fund, California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), has backed efforts to push rating houses Fitch, Moody's and Standard & Poor's to reform their methods for rating government-issued bonds. According to a statement ...

Consumer confidence plummets

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2008
Consumer confidence has plunged 17 percentage points, signaling the economy may be about to slow just enough to allow the Reserve Bank to start dropping interest rates. The news is contained in the latest Sensis consumer report which measures confidence ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
The Australian stock market was down half a per cent at noon, but its mood was better than in previous days, according to analysts. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 28.2 points, or 0.52 per cent, at 5377.6 points, while the broader ...

Retail profits, currency price cuts and ag-flation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
Fighting inflation may be the government's number one policy fight right now, but another should be fighting contradictory policy suggestions and forcing retailers to pass on currency induced price cuts. Australia's major economic debate is how the ...

Schroders expands fixed income team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
Schroders Investment Management Australia has appointed Peter Fullerton to head of credit research in its fixed income team. The newly created position follows the appointment of Steven Hur to credit analyst in November last year. In this role Fullerton ...

Macquarie ushers new chief

Nicholas Moore, head of Macquarie Capital, is to succeed the group's long time chief executive Allan Moss, who retires this year after almost 15 years at the helm of one of the country's largest homegrown financial services groups. Macquarie Group chairman ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open lower following declines in US stocks overnight. In London, base metal prices mostly were weaker. At 0646 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index futures contract was down 72 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open lower after US stocks turned negative as investors worried about ratings agencies cutting the triple-A rating on the two companies, which together insure more than $US1 trillion in bonds. Wall Street initially ...