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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... partly offset weaker resources stocks, with the major banks modestly higher. ANZ was up 15 cents at $22.45, Commonwealth Bank gained 19 cents to $48.99, Westpac added 11 cents to $21.01 and National Australia Bank was seven cents higher at $23.93. At ...

When optimism rains, it pours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... how the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank (WB) saw the economic landscape panning out in 2012 when they - one after the other - lowered their global growth projections ...

Gonski appointed new chair of Future Fund

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... whose government commissioned review of school funding across Australia was recently released, is also the chair of Investec Bank Australia, Coca-Cola Amatil and Ingeus Ltd, as well as a director of Singapore Airlines. He will step down from the board ...

CBA, NAB joins Class Super

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
Commonwealth Bank of Australia and National Australia Bank have both joined the automated data feeds of SMSF administration software developer Class Super. The addition of CBA and NAB takes the number of top 20 Australian financial institutions as providers ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... including the heavyweight financial and resources stocks. ANZ was up 26 cents, or 1.18 per cent, at $22.37, Commonwealth Bank had gained 53 cents, or 1.1 per cent, to $48.90, National Australia Bank added 25 cents, or 1.06 per cent, to $23.93 and Westpac ...

Upside surprises to surprise on the upside

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... for moi, the best news of the night was the results of the Fed's stress test mark II. The results show that 15 of the 19 bank holding companies (BHC) stress tested would be able to maintain their Tier 1 capital ratio - the strictest gauge of banks' capability ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... cent, to 4,336.5 points. NEW YORK - US stocks took off on Tuesday with the Dow zooming past the 13,000 mark driven by soaring bank shares, sparked by JPMorgan Chase's announcement of a huge share buyback and dividend hike. After a sharp surge higher ...

Frontier appoints new analysts

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2012
... Singapore Ministry of Defence as a technology consultant. Vivian Yang will join Frontier this month from National Australia Bank where she was analyst in the Investment Structure and International Security Pricing team. Norman Zhang joins in April from ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2012
... BHP Billiton was up 41 cents at $35.12, and Rio Tinto lifted 47 cents to $64.21. Among the major banks, National Australia Bank was 13 cents richer at $23.47, Westpac improved 17 cents to $20.68, ANZ added 23 cents to $21.97 and Commonwealth Bank found ...

Gen Y aiming high: REST

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2012
... "Additionally, taking their super with them as they change jobs is getting easier, so now it is almost like taking their bank account with them."