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Much ado, no do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
Move on people, get going, nothing to see here. Wall Street went home happy last night despite Uncle Ben's much-anticipated semi-annual testimony before the US Senate's Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs being a non-event - a maintenance ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
... production report. In Australia, the market on Tuesday closed higher, boosted by positive economic commentary from the central bank and gains among bank and energy stocks. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index rose 35.7 points, or 0.87 per cent, to 4,140.8 ...

Westpac launches share trading app

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
... are among the features announced by Westpac. The app is supported by iPhones, Android phones and iPad tablets. Commonwealth Bank of Australia's securities trading arm CommSec was the first to launch a trading app back in 2010 with more than 100,000 downloads ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
... major banks and Telstra gained. Westpac was up 17 cents to $22.33, ANZ was 13 cents higher at $22.61, National Australia Bank gained eight cents to $23.58 and Commonwealth Bank was up 39 cents to $54.45. At 1032 AEST, Telstra shares were up one cent ...

Hunter Hall appoints ex-Perpetual CEO

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
... the private wealth arm of the firm. Prior to his tenure at Perpetual he was head of the Funds Management Group at Macquarie Bank and served as chairman of the Financial Services Council between 2007 and 2010. Peter Hall AM, Hunter Hall's executive chairman ...

Aust lags in financial job market

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
Australia is lagging the rest of Asia Pacific in financial services job opportunities. The latest quarterly data from eFinancial Careers showed that while Australia experienced a 37% decline in the number of opportunities in Q2, the average for the ...

Lost

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
... emerging markets) is slowing, there's the fiscal cliff, still high unemployment in the US, a rising one in Europe, central bank policy accommodation and/or QE measures are bringing in less bang for the buck, etc., etc. And oh, there's now also surging ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
... Tuesday, the September share price index futures contract was up one point at 4,073. In economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases the minutes of it July board meeting and the Australia Bureau of Statistics releases the international ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
The Australian share market has opened almost 1% higher as investors snapped up resources stocks following commodity price rises and gains on Wall Street. At 1010 AEST on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 36.5 points, or 0.89 per cent, at ...

AusSuper to double Asian exposure

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
... KPMG; as well as Raymundo Yu, former chairman of Merrill Lynch Asia Pacific. The committee will be chaired by former Reserve Bank governor Bernie Fraser. Delaney said AustralianSuper would up its exposure to Asian markets to $7bn by 2016, and that the ...