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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... and financial sectors and as the market anticipated the announcement of the date of the federal election, announced on Saturday as August 21. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 19.9 points, or 0.45 per cent, at 4,422.7 points, while the broader ...

Drunk futures broker banned

FSA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
... Perkins traded without client authorisation in the early hours of the Tuesday morning after drinking heavily between Saturday and Monday in June 2009. He traded an "extremely high volume" of Brent contract and, as a result, accumulated a long outright ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
... 20,912.18 points. Turnover was 90.19 billion Hong Kong dollars ($A13.17 billion). The People's Bank of China said on Saturday it would "strengthen the flexibility" of the currency, which some analysts saw as a sign Beijing was ready to scrap the US dollar ...

Too clever by half

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... Warren Buffett defended Goldman Sachs Group Inc." Goldman according to Buffet. At Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting last Saturday, Warren strongly defended Goldman Sachs, saying he doesn't believe Goldman acted improperly and that the Abacus deal involved ...

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 ...