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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
... 1.4 per cent in the March quarter, while its index for export prices climbed 5.2 per cent. "Obviously, the terms of trade story is one of the fundamental stories for the Australian economic outlook," St George chief economist Besa Deda said. The terms ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... listing in London and Hong Kong, the largest share offer so far this year. The listing is a play on the global commodities story and comes just as Goldman Sachs has said it feels the market has topped out for now -- although it remains a sound bet for ...

Managers see ASX at 5500 this year

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
... Australian balance sheets is at record levels in dollar terms and as a percentage of assets," said Oliver. "The Chinese commodity story could be a long one so there is still upside on the Australian dollar," he added. The Dalton Nicol Reid Australian ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... from a solid US private sector jobs report. Dealers said investors remain confident that the underlying economic growth story remains strong enough to withstand a tumultuous backdrop of unrest in the Middle East, Japan's devastating earthquake and deep ...

Credit unions and super funds show same merger trends

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... up in 2020, I predict 50 or so mutual credit unions and probably two or three the size of small banks." He said a similar story of consolidation would exist for not-for-profit superannuation funds. Elana Rubin, chair of AustralianSuper, told the afternoon ...

Funds join forces for Asian growth

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... be it in resources or other sectors. The funds Asian investments are centred around the Chinese consumption and resources story. "We've had to research widely because many of these companies are very expensive but being a specialist investment manager ...

No $900 slug for planners: FPA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... $900 under its proposed new fee structure. Fears about fee hikes for individual planners surfaced this morning after a news story in a trade publication about a member who complained her Certified Financial Planner (CFP) fee of $686 would have risen ...

Three and a half men

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
... process the goings on with a normal brain. But had Wall Street gone the other way, the spin would be entirely different. The story would read like this. "Wall Street ignored Middle East tensions, buoyed by Bernanke's upbeat assessment on the economy ...

Queen Qaddafi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... not even closed at US$100 - ending last Friday's trade at US$95.98 a barrel, down from the previous day's US$96.35. BREN's story is different. It breached US$100 a barrel way back when February 2011 started and continues to climb. It closed at US$114.34 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... it," he said from Auckland. "There was also a bit of focus on the investment intentions out of Australia. "I think that story may have dropped off the top rung but it is certainly a focus in terms of the foreign exchange market. "When you get the investment ...