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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... that swept up the US eastern coast over the weekend. North Sea Brent for October delivery gained $US1.20 to $US112.56 and West Texas light sweet crude rose $US1.95 to $US87.32. TOKYO - Tokyo share prices closed up 0.61 per cent on Monday after Finance ...

AMP Capital wins UK pension fund mandate

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011

West takes east-coast planners

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
West Australian wealth management firm Plan B has begun a friendly takeover of financial planning dealership My Adviser, opening the door to a large network of eastern state advisory businesses. The My Adviser network has 54 advisory firms with 122 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... Commission preliminary hearing opened in Greymouth on Tuesday. NZOG has a 29 per cent shareholding in Pike River, the West Coast coal mine where an explosion last November killed 29 men. The market did not react to the release of the New Zealand Institute ...

Big mandates, big risk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... are frozen... you need to be careful who your clients are." Another African country on the brink of civil war is the Ivory Coast, the world's major supplier of cocoa. In the Middle East, the US is seeking the removal of Yemen's president Ali Abdullah ...

Unknown unknowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... at the same magnitude as that of Japan's. Commodity prices - including safe-havens gold and silver - also fell. Even oil. West Texas crude is now trading below US$100 a barrel even as news reports tell of rising tensions in Bahrain. So much so that it ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... minister raised the spectre of a nuclear disaster following several explosions at a power plant on the tsunami-hit northeast coast. The benchmark NZX-50 index closed down 47.06 points, or 1.4 per cent, at 3314.14, after losing 21.6 points on Monday. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... Speizer said from Wellington. "The contagion effect is a risk to that whole region. "A good chunk of the region is still west friendly, whether a new reshapened Middle East remains the same is a concern. Mr Speizer said he expected the Australian dollar ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
... after posting half year net profit up 2.9 per cent on the first half of 2009/10. It also says the recent floods on the east coast of Australia in January have wiped $10 million from revenue. In other news, a five-year alliance between airlines Virgin ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
... the moment I think it will be very much eyes on offshore leads." Cyclone Yasi is expected to cross the north Queensland coast between Cairns and Cardwell at 2200 AEST on Wednesday night, coinciding with the high tide. The major Australian insurers opened ...