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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... billion). Market-watchers expected the market to move in a tight range ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday that begins on Saturday. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket closed marginally higher. The benchmark NZX-50 index closed up 9.1 points, or ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
... is no catalyst for it at this stage. "The market will probably be looking next to (US) unemployment data coming out on Saturday." In the healthcare space at 1204 AEDT, CSL was up 19 cents at $31.09 while Cochlear was three cents stronger at $61.96. Oil ...

Australian Ethical sponsors art prize

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
... exhibited from the first to the 14 of June at Tap Gallery in Darlinghurst and the presentation of the prizes will be held on Saturday 6 June. Artists' works must be in by 6pm, Monday 1 June for entry into the competition.

Bonus hocus pocus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2009
... find a way to invent and innovate to be able to beat the system and satisfy our greed.' Barely a day has passed when, Saturday morning, Bloomberg splashed out this news item: 'Bank of America Corp. plans to increase some investment bankers' salaries ...

I have been dead wrong: Buffett

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... not often that a highly respected investment guru such as Warren Buffett admits to making a "major mistake"- but last Saturday, he did. In his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, Buffett acknowledged he made a "major mistake of commission" ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
... then plunging again as investors absorbed another wave of downbeat economic news. Hedge fund selling in advance of a Saturday deadline contributed to the market's gyrations, which set back the Dow Jones industrials almost 340 points. The Dow fell 337.94 ...

Oil on slippery slope?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2008
... US oil inventories and that Hurricane Ike was due to hit the production facilities in the Gulf of Mexico this coming Saturday. The US Energy Information Administration reported that crude inventories fell by 5.9 million barrels last week compared to ...

This Week's Market Movers (28 Jul - 1 Aug 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
... from the 1 percent rate in the first quarter. While it may be too late for Australian and Asian markets to react upon, Saturday's US payrolls report and the ISM index will be significant market movers of financial market activity in Europe and the US. ...

Health insurance lobby lessons

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
... two million people who've been hit by this unfair surcharge over a long period of time," said Treasurer Wayne Swan on Saturday. "I don't think that the industry can keep demanding increase after increase and not look at their own cost structures a little ...

Govt to create national infra investment fund

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
... cent as well while retail spending is yet to slow down in any meaningful way. The Canberra Times reported the story on Saturday, saying that almost all the Surplus is expected to be channelled into the new fund. Speculation about the BAF began when Prime ...