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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
The Australian share market had made marginal gains by noon on Thursday ahead of US President Barack Obama's State of the Union address and US December growth figures due on Friday. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had firmed 1.1 point ...

Richard Keary to head FRM Australia

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2009
Hedge fund veteran Richard Keary is to join global fund of hedge funds, Financial Risk Management (FRM) to head of the Australian business. In the new Sydney-based role, Keary will focus on serving institutional investors as well as key distribution ...

Governments could cause next GFC

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2009
The developed world's governments could be the perpetrator of the next GFC as unchecked debt and overspending take their toll, warns an expert. Martin Barnes, an investment veteran and managing editor of Bank Credit Analyst Research, told an IMCA conference ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
There was little movement on the Australian sharemarket at noon with trading in the US slowing down for Thanksgiving on Thursday. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 10.9 points, or 0.23 per cent, at 4,695.90, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Cheap linkers up for grabs: Credit Agricole

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
Inflation-linked bonds might still trail nominal bonds by 4 per cent in performance - but the gap is closing. Isabelle Vic-Philippe, head of duration & inflation management team at Credit Agricole Asset Management, told a media briefing yesterday that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
The Australian stock market has received negative leads from overseas, with Wall Street's key stock indices lower and commodities prices weaker. At 0813 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was down 33 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... due to release its latest target statement, in response to a takeover bid from GUD Holdings Ltd. Rio Tinto chief executive Tom Albanese is to set speak at a conference at the University of Western Australia in Perth. In Australia on Monday, the share ...

Trick or treat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
Trick or treat? Trick or treat? Will Halloween steal Christmas away from Wall Street? It appears so given the stumble on Wall Street and most major equity markets around the world last week - sending their early October gains down the gurgler. Wall ...

Sucked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
Sucked in...again! Who was? Is? Will be? As the Dow Jones Industrials Index flips and flops on both side of the 10K divide, talk of a 'sucker's rally' have resurfaced. But it could also easily be a 'sucker's correction.' Readers who have been following ...

Carpe Diem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
Dow 10,000! So now...tell me...how do you put a negative spin on that? Not when Annie's tomorrow becomes today. "The sun'll come out Tomorrow Bet your bottom dollar That tomorrow There'll be sun!" Tomorrow's taken a year to come, but it has come. The ...