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Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
... added 33.25 points, or 0.23 per cent, to 14,329.49. Economic data from China is likely to influence the local market on Friday, with trade figures expected early in the afternoon, local time. More important retail sales and inflation data will be also ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
... gains in US and European stocks after the British and European central banks kept their rates on hold. At 0830 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was up 20 points at 5,131. No major economic news is expected on Friday. In equities ...

Media Super gets MySuper approval

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... Michael Rooney announced that formal notification had been received from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority on Friday 1 March. "I am very pleased to advise that Media Super has received authorisation to offer a MySuper product" he said. "Media ...

Media Super to add corporate funds

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... to another fund," he said. Amid struggle for consolidation, Media Super is also adapting to new regulations. Only last Friday, the industry fund received the MySuper authorisation from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). The fund announced ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... uncertainty in the wake of last week's inconclusive national elections. The euro slipped to $US1.2995 from $US1.3018 late on Friday in New York. HONG KONG - Asian markets have mostly tumbled with US lawmakers failing to prevent the imposition of $US85 ...

Former Lonsec MD pleads guilty to insider trading

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... pleaded guilty to two charges of insider trading, the Australian Securities and Investments Comission (ASIC) announced on Friday. The charges relate to an order that Graham placed on Feburary 26 2010 to sell 200,000 shares in Clean Seas Tuna across two ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... index futures contract was down eight points at 5066, with 9,448 contracts traded. Wall Street reached a five-year high on Friday but the rest of the world is watching how the US economy deals with impending federal spending cuts through its sequester ...

The virtuous cycle is back in play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... sequestration? Not Wall Street it seems. The US$85 billion in spending cuts known as 'sequestration' came into effect last Friday, the 1st of March. Yes, that one. That unkind cut that the IMF predicts will shave half a percent to its forecast 2.0% growth ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... survey and the NAB quarterly online retail sales index. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Friday closed almost half a per cent lower as the major resources companies dragged the index down. At the close, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
The Australian share market is trading lower following negative leads from overseas markets. At 1200 AEDT on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 26 points, or 0.51 per cent, at 5,078.1 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had reversed ...