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Three chances to win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... the final outcome. Back to the dude that's thinking he's died and gone to heaven. At 0230 post-meridian today, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) announces its verdict on interest rates. Will it hold rates steady or cut by 25 bps... or 50 bps? Bet correctly ...

Market Wrap early AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract was down six points at 4,452. In economic news on Tuesday, The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) holds its monthly board meeting and makes its November interest rate decision, while the Australian ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
... the market over the coming days, ahead of the US elections and a Melbourne Cup day interest rate decision from the Reserve Bank of Australia. "We will be quiet until we can get through probably tomorrow and Wednesday," Mr Smith said. Making news on Monday ...

ME Bank appoints new directors

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
ME Bank shareholders have appointed Christine Christian and Justin Milne to the ME Bank Board, at the bank's Annual General Meeting in Melbourne on 1 November. Christine Christian is well versed in credit risk management and has served in senior executive ...

Westpac warns tough year ahead

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
... statutory net profit has fallen 15% to $5.97 billion owing to a one-off tax benefit last year. The tax gain is related to the bank's takeover of St George, which pushed last year's profit artificially higher and made this year's result appear weaker ...

A week full of question marks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
Now what's wrong this time? The US Bureau of Labor Statistics released the 'mother-of-all-economic statistics' at the end of last week's trading and it was good. But how did Mr. Market react? He thought it was good too until... he didn't. The S&P 500 ...

Market wrap early AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
... index futures contract was down three points at 4,442. In economic news on Monday, the Australian Industry Group/Commonwealth Bank Australian Performance of Services Index for October, the Dun and Bradstreet business expectations survey, the ANZ job ...

Poisoned chalice awaits next US president

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... boost to hospital, pharmaceutical, green energy and infrastructure stocks while a Romney victory will see coal, railroad, bank, defence and auto stocks climb. However, the equity expert maintains that investors looking for more predictable gains should ...

Hood Sweeney announces three new directors

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
Hood Sweeney has announced the appointment of three new Directors to the highly successful South Australian professional services business. Hood Sweeney managing director, Matthew Rowe said the appointments of Keith Rutherford, Nicholas Edwards and ...

Good not great but getting better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... central government deficit narrowed to 4.4% of GDP in the January-September period from 4.8% in January-August. Also, the Bank of Spain reported that the country posted a a,-1.2 billion current account surplus in August - the second surplus in the euro's ...