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Morning market wrap: Technicals push US stocks modestly higher

US stocks edged a little higher Friday, with markets bouncing off key support levels after a round of disappointing data on US consumer spending.

Afternoon market wrap: Lacklustre performance by the All Ords

The All Ordinaries dipped 3.6 points in trading today or by about 0.1 per cent, whilst Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose 45.48 points or 0.42%...

WTO chairperson closes Cancun conference with no consensus achieved

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) chairperson Luis Ernesto Derbez, who is also Mexico’s foreign minister, has announced that the Cancun Ministerial Conference...

Interstar prices $500 million MBS issue

Macquarie Bank Ltd announced today that Interstar Securities (Australia) Pty Ltd has priced its $500 million Interstar Millennium Series...

Morningstar upgrades ING's international fixed interest management process

Morningstar has today announced that it had upgraded ING Investment Management Australia’s management of international fixed interest from negative to neutral due to new process...

Westfield sells its stake ($212 million worth) in new New York World Trade Centr

Westfield America has today confirmed reports that it had commenced discussions and signed a non-binding letter of intent with the Port Authority of New York...

FPA introduces summer school to fast track education programs

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has launched a more flexible method of learning to fast track its students through its education courses...

Macquarie inaugurates pioneer German traffic project

The Macquarie Infrastructure Group (MIG) has today advised that the Warnow Tunnel in Rostock, Germany...

Perpetual launches multi-manager retail platform

Perpetual Investments has unveiled a new multi-manager retail platform that offers financial advisers and their clients over 50 single manager and multi-manager funds across six different investment categories...

FOMC to meet next week, unlikely to change interest rates: ICAP

The meeting next Tuesday by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will look to reassess the outlook for the US economy and adjust interest rates...