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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
... international trade in goods and services data for April. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Glenn Stevens speaks in James Cook University's business excellence series. The South Australian government will deliver its budget. In company news ...

Instinet launches Newport 3

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
... properly judge the quality of the trading and conflict management for which the transition manager is responsible," said Graham Cook, director and head of portfolio implementation and restructuring group at Instinet Pacific Services, in a statement.

Let them have soup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
US First Lady, Michelle Obama, shows us the future - and it does not look good. Wall Street and European equities tumbled again while we were sleeping. Part of the reason was disappointment that the much-awaited Chinese medicine was not potent enough ...

Darkest before dawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
Well now, there we have it. If the January effect holds, US equity investors and the rest of us should all go on vacation and come back next year. The January effect postulates that the US stock market's performance for the entire month of January predicts ...

Pinnacle taps private equity demand

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
... yesterday announced the establishment of Pinnacle Private Equity Limited to manage a new mid market private equity fund. Bill Cook and Peter Ludemann, who were previously members of the AMP Capital Investors PE team, have jumped ship to head the new ...

Aus FMs avoid Satyam scandal

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
Australian fund managers with an eye on tech stocks dodged the Satyam scandal, with two local fund managers reporting they had no investments in the firm. Fiducian Portfolio Services investment manager, Conrad Burge, said the firm's India Fund did not ...

No instant gratification

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
'Rome was not built in a day.' Wall Street's behaviour over the past few days reflects the GenXers and GenYers culture of instant gratification. Flick a switch and dinner is cooked, the music plays, moving images play on the screen. Click on the mouse ...

Macq predicts SG to top 9pc

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
Australia's superannuation guarantee level is set to rise above the current 9 per cent under the Rudd Government, predicts a head strategist at Macquarie. Pointing out that it was the Labor government that set the wheels of the present super regime ...

Australia catches Dutch Disease

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
... signal deeper problems about to confront us. Reflecting this, Professor Wolfgang Fischer from the School of Economics at James Cook University in North Queensland, said, "the terms of trade should not be used as synonymous with the wealth of Australia... ...

Property back to fair value

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2008
The Australian property securities sector has been undeniably hard hit by the US credit liquidity crisis and ailing stockmarket, but industry punters believe that the sector is going through a rebirth of correction - and now returning to a "fair value" ...