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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2008
... warning by American Express Co of mounting credit-card defaults and a slowdown in consumer spending. Worries about consumer belt-tightening hit stocks from across the board - from fast-food chain McDonald's Corp to Tiffany & Co. The luxury jeweller cut ...

QSuper appoints three GMs

... including AMP, Suncorp, Mellon, Financial Synergy and Plum Financial Services. With a Masters degree in Risk Management under her belt, Maria is also a CCP (Fellow) of the ACI, a fellow of ANZIIF and ASFA, and a member of and Certified Practising Risk ...

Deck the halls with interest rate hikes

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2007
... categories to report monthly declines, down 0.4 and 2.1 per cent respectively. Tasmania was the only state pulling in its belt, where sales fell 1.1per cent. All the mainland states saw increases with the biggest shopoholics in Queensland (up 1.2 per ...

Equities' erratic flight path

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2007
If equity markets were an international flight, right about now the captain would be asking "that all passengers, remain seated with seat belts firmly fastened." Consensus is that the current market turbulence will be around for some time so we may ...

Corporates ride market turbulence

Despite continuing market turbulence, there are no fasten safety belts signs to observe as Australia's economic and corporate performance indicators remains strong. CommSec is optimistic regarding this reporting season, "Certainly in a big picture sense ...

IRESS seals $48m VisiPlan deal

... 5.95 million IRESS shares, around $48 million. Following the deal, IRESS will have three major software businesses under its belt, namely XPLAN, PlanTech and VisiPlan. XPLAN and PlanTech generate a combined $15 million in revenue with VisiPlan adding ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2007
The Australian share market has followed Wall Street to begin recovering from yesterday's horror as investors sift through the wreckage in search of bargains. At 1015 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index gained 12.1 points to 5844.6, while the all ordinaries ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2006
The Australian stock market was trading lower at noon after a sharp fall in metal prices hit resource stocks, and cancelled out a positive lead from Wall Street. At 1200 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index lost 8.4 points to 5428.3, while the all ordinaries ...

Fix debt ahead of rate rise: ANZFP

With the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) likely to increase interest rates next month and possibly in March after the latest inflation figures were released, ANZ Financial Planning's general manager, Mike Goodall, has urged consumers to re-evaluate ...

Lower risks from hedge fund strategies causing a rethink

... "The overall performance of the hedge fund managers continues to be strong as we begin 2006 and we are certain that this 'belt and braces' approach to risk management within this product will appeal to many looking at ways to derive alpha and reduce ...