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Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012
... 2,976.12. Stocks had risen on Tuesday - Wednesday markets were closed for a holiday - in anticipation that the European Central Bank would cut interest rates and the Bank of England would boost stimulus efforts in bids to turn around European economic ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... euro slipped against the dollar on Wednesday as investors waited for key monetary policy decisions by the European Central Bank and Bank of England. Markets expect an ECB rate cut on Thursday along with a decision by the BoE to pump out an additional ...

Regulation biggest concern for SFOs

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... concern for single-family offices in terms of risks to managing investments, according to a survey from J.P. Morgan Private Bank. A poll of 125 single family offices (SFO), each with more than US$100 million in assets under management, revealed 23% were ...

Mercer expands local Sentinel team

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... Mercer Sentinel to take up responsibility for operational risk assessments. Robert Dixon, previously a transition manager at Bank of New York Mellon, will report to Corbett while Ashika Narayan, previously a unit pricing analyst at IPAC, will join the ...

Direct insurance 40% of market by 2021

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... the success of the Tesco UK supermarket. Tesco's financial services move has been so successful it has established its own bank which sources 62% of its sales revenue online.

Waiting on the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... night, not even a mouse, for everybody was in wait mode. This time, everyone and his dog are waiting for the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England (BOE) to announce their respective monetary policy decisions. This is all well and good ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... than in previous months, a sign the struggling industry may have turned a corner. Australian Industry Group/Commonwealth Bank Australian Performance of Services Index (PSI) rose by 5.3 points to 48.8 in June. A reading of below 50 indicates a contraction. ...

Barclays chief resigns

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... which has resulted in Prime Minister David Cameron announcing a full parliamentary inquiry, now looks likely to envelop the Bank of England. Barclays has released an internal 2008 memo from Diamond, then head of the investment bank, following a conversation ...

Falling bond yields, low growth, subdued returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... GFC have been sold to foreign investors. This is reinforced by reports that central banks, including the European Central Bank, have been buying Australian government bonds in response to continuing fears of contagion in Europe. The rush to safe-haven ...

IMF issues buy order

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... financial markets' direction over the next three months, at least. No Virginia, it's not yesterday's decision by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to sit pat on interest rates because the bank believed its current policy setting "remained appropriate". ...