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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... to $33.29 but Fortescue Metals was up two cents to $3.63. Among the banks, ANZ was up four cents to $25.54, Commonwealth Bank was eight cents higher at $56.93, and Westpac was up seven cents to $25.95, but National Australia Bank lost one cent to $26.30. ...

Hybrid securities back in favour

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... party is listed insurance company Suncorp with the launch of a $350 million Tier 1 hybrid two weeks ago. The Commonwealth Bank is also tapping into the growing investor demand for high yield with the recent launch of a $1.5 billion PERLS VI hybrid, which ...

Fund managers bullish on Asian bonds

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... confidence back to the market and resulting in a search for yield. Geoff Pidgeon, head of global asset management for HSBC Bank Australia said institutions are increasingly searching for alternate yields and debt including bank loans, RMBS and high-grade ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... down one point at 4,493. In economic news on Monday, ANZ job advertisements series for September is due out while Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens is scheduled to appear before the House of Representative Economic committee over alleged ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... Tinto gained 34.5 cents to $54.29 and Fortescue was seven cents higher at $3.52. ANZ added nine cents to $25.39, Commonwealth Bank was up seven cents $56.62, National Australia Bank was also seven cents higher at $26.22 and Westpac gained 10 cents to ...

Yield at any cost flawed: GSAM

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
Uncertainty has caused a preoccupation with yield and safe haven stocks, said Goldman Sachs Asset Management's head of Australian equities. Cost pressures, low productivity and the impact of a strong Australian dollar are causing uncertainty, despite ...

NSW and CFS partner in first gov retail annuity bond

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... Government with an additional source of funding to address the backlog of essential infrastructure across NSW." Commonwealth Bank Group Executive Wealth Management, Annabel Spring said CFS's exclusive platform distribution rights for the NSW Waratah ...

Failure is not an option

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
It's been a month -- or thereabouts -- since the European Central Bank -- followed by the US Federal Reserve followed by the Bank of Japan -- gave financial markets what they wished, prayed and hoped for and fired the first salvo of quantitative easing. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... Major European stock markets have hit a soft patch despite news of successful Spanish bond auctions and after the ECB and Bank of England kept their main interest rates unchanged. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies closed virtually unchanged ...

netwealth launches global trading on platforms

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... Hong Kong and Japan. Matt Heine, executive director at netwealth said the service meets a key requirement of the private bank and high net worth market and that demand is already "significant." "We decided to develop the offering when a core group of ...