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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
... Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was up 15 points at 4,271. In economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) board makes its interest rate decision at its monthly board meeting, and the Australian Industry Group/Housing ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2012
... reporting earnings this week include BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, News Corp, Telstra Corp and Newcrest Mining. National Australia Bank also releases its trading update on Tuesday. At 1020 AEDT, BHP Billiton, which is due to release its half-year results ...

ASIC charges against new wave of boiler room scams

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2012
... ASIC also alleged that Golden Sparrow used cold calling and a website to induce investors to deposit funds into a number of bank accounts held in the names of Golden Sparrow and GS Contracting with the promise that the funds would used to buy shares ...

Planners double allocation to term deposits

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... Peker, planners remain more positive on market expectations than investors, whose expectations have fallen to 3%. Specialist bank, Investec meanwhile have advised investors against being complacent with term deposits amid falling interest rates. "Investors ...

Shorten urges banks to stand by staff

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... weighing up the need to increase profits and decrease costs, don't lose sight of the people in the business," said Shorten. "A bank in a place where people are unemployed doesn't have customers." Westpac chief executive Gail Kelly told ABC this morning ...

China on course for slowdown, not landing: Fidelity

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... "For Asia it's just a transitional issue, funding is not a problem," according to Urquhart, adding that the Chinese Central Bank was also starting to return some deposits to Chinese banks. The Fidelity manager maintained another reason to invest in China ...

Financial services digging deep for FICAP

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
The Financial Industry Community Aid Programme (FICAP) has signed up another three platinum sponsors for its charity concert next month. ANZ, Colonial First State and RNC Global Projects have joined returning sponsors BT Financial Group and Perpetual ...

Eyes turn to monetary policy

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
... Australian School of Business, Clifford Bennett, chief economist at White Crane Group, and Saul Eslake, chief economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch Australia. In delivering Macquarie's market outlook for 2012, Gibbs anticipated another year of "trials ...

MTAA Super extends NAB Asset Servicing mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
MTAA Super Fund has renewed its custodial contract with the Asset Servicing division of National Australia Bank after a competitive tender process, continuing its 15-year relationship. NAB will continue to provide a full range of custodial services ...

Asia vital for Aus business: Harcourt

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
... productivity.... While the other is how you distribute the income gains as a result," said Saul Eslake, chief economist, Bank of America - Merrill Lynch Australia also speaking at the event. Eslake told delegates how Australia's own labour productivity ...