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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... Finance and Banking Conference. The Westpac-Melbourne Institute index of economic activity report for October and the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations vacancy report for December were also due for release. On Tuesday, the Australian share ...

12 Apostles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... per cent, to 1,106.41. The Nasdaq composite index slipped 0.55 points, or 0.55 per cent, to 2,190.31. The Commerce Department said retail sales rose 1.3 per cent in November, more than double the increase analysts had expected and better than the 1.1 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
... lifting demand for US goods, which become less expensive for foreign buyers when the greenback falls. The Commerce Department said a rise in exports helped narrow the nation's trade gap to $US32.9 billion ($A36.2 billion) in October. Economists had been ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
... strong the economic recovery will be and where they will be able to make the biggest returns. Separately, the Commerce Department reported that businesses added to inventories at the wholesale level in October after a record 13 straight months of reductions. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
... increased rates also led to a sharp rise in the dollar, which hurt prices for commodities including oil. The Labor Department said the economy shed 11,000 jobs last month, the smallest monthly loss since December 2007, when the recession began. That's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... figure analysts had been expecting and signals contraction. The market rose at the start of trading following a Labor Department report that new claims for unemployment benefits fell unexpectedly for the fifth straight week and Bank of America Corp's ...

Mariner veteran sets up A3L

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
Scott Marinchek, founder and former head of Mariner Third-age Retirement Living, has set up his own institutional investment management business, Aviiid Third-age Living. Marinchek launched the firm on Wednesday, and said the business focuses on tapping ...

Improving admin could stop fraudsters: SPAA

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2009
Self managed super fund (SMSF) administration processes need to be refined to ensure fraudulent rollover schemes are detected and stopped, according to one industry body. Andrea Slattery, chief executive at the SMSF Professionals Association of Australia ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... economic news on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases construction work data for September quarter. The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations releases its skilled job vacancies survey. Reserve Bank of Australia deputy governor ...