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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... came a day after Wall Street enjoyed its strongest one-day rally this year, driven by robust earnings from companies like IBM and Coca-Cola. Wednesday's big winner was Apple, whose shares surged 2.7 per cent after it reported that its second-quarter ...

Earnings up but jobs cut at State Street

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011
... global job cuts come as part of an "IT Transformation" program with 320 information technology workers moving to tech firms IBM or Wipro while a further 530 will have their jobs eliminated, the company said on its website. The firm announced last year ...

Perpetual chief ushers in new era

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... said Ryan, adding that 26 roles were created with new appointments to new group executive operations, Richard Vahtrick from IBM and Brian Henderson, formerly with Fidelity International, will join Perpetual in June as group executive marketing. Ryan ...

US inside trader hit with possible two-decade jail sentence

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... several hedge funds" said one court document, which alleged that the sources of inside information included an executive at IBM, a director at Intel Corporation and several other executives at listed companies. "The unlawful trading involved inside information ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... June 5, 2008. The Nasdaq Composite leaped 57.54 points (2.10 per cent) to 2,802.51. Solid earnings from Dow blue chips Intel, IBM and United Technologies, and from internet giant Yahoo!, helped to ignite buying in the Easter holiday-shortened week. The ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... points. Since then the blue-chip index has rebounded 87 per cent. On the 30-stock Dow, only a few components traded higher: IBM was up 2.3 per cent, Home Depot was up 1.4 per cent and AT&T was up 1.2 per cent. Government bailed-out insurer American International ...

Cashed-up China eyes US investments

... as having its finger of the pulse of US investments and political attitudes following its 2005 purchase of computer giant IBM. China already holds an estimated $800 billion in US government debt and any new infrastructure investment, which would be on ...

RBF-Tas makes senior appointments

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2010
... corporate support until the end of September next year. Mazengarb has held senior executive positions with Forestry Tasmania, IBM Australia and PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting. Connor and Mazengarb will commence with RBF on Monday 4 January next year. ...

AvSuper appoints Russell for admin

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
... its new in-house administration model. Russell will replace Towers Watson, which outsourced its underlying administration to IBM SuperLife. AvSuper's contract award follows Russell's strategy to boost its admin business by bringing in-house more than ...

IBM Super upgrades online presence

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2010
IBM Super fund has redesigned its website with new features, following the trend of super funds upgrading their technology as members become more tech savvy. In what could be called a late start when compared to other super funds, the new-look IBM Super ...