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The dragon stumbles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2009
What's this? Wall Street dipped because China's stock market tumbled and commodity prices slumped? Here's Bloomberg's leader, "U.S. stocks fell for a second day as plunging Chinese shares and commodities stoked speculation that the surge in equities ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
The Australian sharemarket had improved from its opening by noon after being pulled up by the major banks. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 0.1 point,at 4169.4 points while the broader All Ordinaries index was 0.2 point lower at ...

QIC's Buckley to expand role

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
QIC's global fixed interest team is being reshuffled after two members resigned to pursue careers at large domestic banks, leaving Susan Buckley, managing director of the team to refocus her efforts on the portfolio and look for their replacements. ...

Fed brawn, RBA brains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
Days like these, I should have stayed in bed a bit longer. For this is one of those days when overnight action on Wall Street offered no adrenaline hit to my system. Will have to settle for three coffee cups this morning. The S&P slipped 0.3 per cent ...

Cuscal partners with Payment Adviser

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
Cuscal and Payment Adviser have partnered to provide 2 million small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) with a superannuation transaction service that will cut costs and make it easier to make employee payments. The superannuation clearing house will ...

Greener than green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
Phew! That was a close call. Just when you thought Wall Street has run out of puff, a tail wind comes to lift its sails. The Dow and the S&P 500 spent most of last night's trading activity in the red. For most of the session, investors were cashing ...

Loaded one-way bet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
Final inning. Yes folks, this is the month's last inning. Will the end days of July mark the seventh moon of 2009 as the return of the bulls? Or will it mark when the bears built up the courage to mount a comeback? Normally I would have said, it doesn't ...

Aviva insurance in super business jumps 12pc

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
Aviva's new lump sum protection policy business has risen by almost 12 per cent over two years to almost 15 per cent - reflecting a growing trend for customers to get insurance through super. Lump sum protection policy new business has grown from around ...

Microsoft battles Google Docs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
Financial services data in the clouds? You betcha. At least that's what Microsoft is going to do from early next year when it launches a free web-based version of its boxed software, the ubiquitous Microsoft Office. Asian, Indian and African financial ...

LPTs recover and show value

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
Australia's listed property trust (LPT) sector has jumped over 13 per cent in the three months to May and could provide a good value play for financial planning clients if you're prepared to do your homework. Louis Christopher, head of property at Adviser ...