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Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... strong lead from Wall Street. The Dow and S&P 500 advanced to fresh records on Friday amid a lift in oil prices and the French government having favoured General Electric's proposal to take over Alstom's energy assets. Plus, markets were still being ...

Wall Street slips on oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
"Plus ASa change, plus c'est la mAame chose!" Pardon my french, Virginia. But nah, I'm not swearing... it's an honest to goodness French phrase that translates to "the more things change, the more they stay the same." This came to my balding head as ...

Challenger makes senior Fidante Partners appointment

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... an executive director, global capital markets at Morgan Stanley in the UK. Munzer has also worked at ABN AMRO and speaks French and Mandarin. "The appointment of an executive of Gabrielle's experience and calibre reflects the rapid growth and internationalisation ...

Growth and consequence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... country breakdown shows that while Germany and Spain's growth pace doubled in the first quarter from the previous one, the French economy produced zero growth while that of Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Greece and Finland are back with a minus sign ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014
... first time since 2008. It finished 0.83 per cent higher at 4,497.68 points, helped by sparkling first-quarter earnings from French fashion group Hermes. The euro retreated to $US1.3807 from $US1.3851 late in New York on Monday. HONG KONG - Asian markets ...

PROFILE: Bernie Ripoll

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... reports. At the beginning, the future of financial advice was in the hands of Bernie Ripoll, MP for Oxley who was born in the French town of PA(C)zenas and who arrived in Australia by boat. "It hasn't become significant until recently, everybody used ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... per cent at 6,598.37 points. In Paris, the CAC 40 fell 0.45 per cent to 4,391.50 points as official figures showed the French public deficit and debt in 2013 were higher than previous government estimates -- dealing a fresh blow to President Francois ...

Capital Fund Management launches half-price hedge fund

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
French alternatives manager Capital Fund Management (CFM) has launched a new product aimed at institutional investors with half the fees typically offered by hedge funds. The Institutional Systematic Diversified (ISD) Fund blends three quantitative ...

Calm over Crimea and US houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
Hehe. Excusez-moi s'il vous plait. Pardon my French, Virginia. Some of the headlines made me do it. The headlines that say Wall Street's up because of easing tensions in the Ukraine and... "improving outlook for the biggest economy" (you know who you ...

(Back) wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... rate on an uptrend how could we miss it? It's the classic classical economists' credo known as 'Say's Law' (popularised by French economist Jean Say in the 19th century) that says that, "in a free market workers would always be willing to lower their ...