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CBA renames corporate super fund

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
The Commonwealth Bank has re-branded its in-house corporate not-for-profit superannuation fund from the 'Officers' Superannuation Fund' to 'Commonwealth Bank Group Super'. The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) said that the change was implemented to deliver stronger ...

Greece chooses pain to pain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
... majority of them anyway. They don't want to go back to the drachma. Drachma equals no aid, credit default, economic contraction, bank sprints, social unrests, etc. In short, drachma means pain. Euro equals, well, errr... pain. The Greeks better be prepared ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
... will return a pro-austerity government. However, with Spain's borrowing costs hitting another record high despite a major bank bailout, traders remain on edge. Hong Kong surged 2.26 per cent, or 425.54 points, to 19,233.94 and Shanghai rose 0.47 per ...

All eyes on Germany ahead of Greek elections

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... However, Merkel earlier said that those calling for Germany to "pour billions into euro-bonds, stability funds [and] European bank deposit guarantee funds" wanted a quick crisis fix that was unsustainable. She stressed Europe would only find a way out ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... amid speculation of more stimulus from the Federal Reserve after another batch of poor data releases. Rumours of central bank coordination to head off contagion in the markets took stocks through a roller coaster late in the day, as Greece's weekend ...

No random walk on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... policy makers globally". "I don't have an edge on Greek elections, the Spanish banking system, what the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Chinese government, Angela Merkel, or the US Federal Reserve will do." Sounds familiar? ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... amid speculation of more stimulus from the Federal Reserve after another batch of poor data releases. Rumours of central bank coordination to head off contagion in the markets took stocks through a roller coaster late in the day, as Greece's weekend ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
... $6.645. Rival Santos dropped 21 cents, or 1.79 per cent, to $11.52. Big banks were mostly lower, with National Australia Bank bucking the trend by adding four cents to $22.19. After gaining more than eight per cent in opening trade, Perpetual had climbed ...

CFD turnover rises amid dollar decline

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
Aussie dollar and euro declines driving turnover, increased demand for gold and strong interest in the US and German 30 are some of the latest CFD trends identified in CMC Markets' May trading trends report. The latest analysis of CMC Markets' (CMC) ...

Three more days of guessing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
Up and down it goes, where it ends nobody knows. Wall Street was down again last night, after being up the previous day and down the day before. This sawtooth trading pattern hardly comes as a surprise given the great uncertainty over the outcome of ...