"We're probably seeing three times the volume of applications compared with this time last year," said Adrian Hanley, head of equity lending at NAB. "We have had a significant lift in new client activity in the fourth quarter of 2012." ...
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Investors are betting the Australian market index can continue to push decisively beyond the 5000 mark for the first time in seven years as results from some of the blue-chip stocks and a rise in consumer confidence lent support to another ...
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The Australian sharemarket index roared past the 5000 mark for the first time in three years yesterday as consumer confidence soared and Australia's blue-chip companies' half-year results beat investor expectations. Consumer confidence ...
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Energy shares powered blue-chip stocks to five-year highs as Valero Energy reported better-than-expected earnings and investors shrugged off sluggish consumer-confidence data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 72.49 points, or 0.5 ...
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The man from WAM has done it again. Fund manager Geoff Wilson has once again blitzed The Australian's field of assorted share-watching luminaries to win our 2012 stock tipping comp, with an average 34 per cent gain across his 10 individual ...
David McGowan has been appointed as packaging innovation director with a brief to keep the design agency at the forefront of developments in packaging technology and sustainability. According to the design agency, McGowan brings with him ...
Blue-chip stocks rose for a fifth-straight session after a reading on December retail sales rose more than expected. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 27.57 points, or 0.2 per cent, to 13534.89, erasing morning losses to close near ...
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LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan has announced power improvements to its EV-LED family of products (launched last June), allowing single-chip emitters to achieve luminous efficiency of more than ...
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SemiLEDs proudly announces its power improvements in its EV-LED family allowing single-chip emitters to achieve over 130lm/W. SemiLEDs announced its recent improvements in both epitaxial quality and chip process to its EV- family of LED ...
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SmartGlass International, the manufacturer of electronically switchable privacy glass, has announced that it is intensifying its expansion drive in the Middle East to take advantage of a new surge in property development and demand for ...
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Who: Aimia Foods Aim: The family-owned business needed to invest in its three sites in Haydock, North West England, and maintain its high standard of manufacturing products in the dry powder sector Spend: Undisclosed What: A new ...
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Dye-sensitized photoelectric film manufactured by UK company G24 Innovations eliminates need for batteries or chargers. New light-powered wireless keyboards for Apple tablets from the consumer electronics giant Logitech represent ...
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International escrow and assurance services provider NCC Group is to acquire US-based Matasano Security in £8.4m deal. Matasano is a US security testing services provider with numerous blue chip clients particularly in software, IT, ...
IT professionals in the UK, EU and the US agree that BI users are a deep source of exasperation. A survey commissioned by BI dashboards supplier LogiXML found an IT pro population united in grief across the Atlantic. According to the ...
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Emarsys a leading provider of email, social and mobile marketing automation solutions is proud to announce that it is now ISO 27001 certified. One of the only email service providers to be granted the highest level of security ...
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