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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
... 48 cents, or 1.3 per cent, at $37.36, while Rio Tinto shares were $1.06, or 1.56 per cent, higher at $68.89. Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) shares fell 18 cents, or 0.37 per cent, to $48.97. Among the other banks, National Australia Bank was 13 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
... local unit traded between 101.13 US cents and 102.02 cents. The local dollar had a strong rise on Tuesday after the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) board meeting gave no indication it would cut the cash rate again after its cut at the November 1 meeting. ...

Russell: ECB needs to come to Italy's rescue

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
... markets in the wake of earlier respite at news of the change in leadership. Reuters also reported that the European Central Bank (ECB) bought Italian government bonds in the secondary markets yesterday. According to Global investment giant Russell, the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
... about 13 stocks down for every 10 that were up at noon, with the largest decline on the S&P/ASX20 posted by Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), which had slipped 1.58 per cent, or 79 cents, to $49.07. CBA said cash earnings for the first three months ...

IRESS launches UK wealth management division

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
IRESS has launched its Wealth Management division in the United Kingdom on the back of its selection as strategic supplier of wealth management advice technology by Sesame Bankhall Group, the largest distributor of retail financial advice in the UK. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
... on Tuesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases new motor vehicle sales figures for October and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) publishes the minutes of its November 1 board meeting and interest rate decision. In equities news, Perpetual ...

Economist and former EU commissioner appointed Italian PM designate

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... member, Greece, amid reports troika representatives (inspectors from the International Monetary Fund, the European Central bank and EU) are due to arrive in Athens today, to ensure the country's new prime minister Lucas Papademos, is in a position to ...

ASX's PureMatch gets ASIC green light

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... will commence with a soft launch, trading no more than 10 securities for at least two weeks. These securities include major bank and mining stocks with a proposed expansion of included securities to all S&P/ASX 200 stocks plus ETFs on December 12 2011 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
Australian stocks gained as changes of leadership in Italy and Greece stoked optimism that Europe's debt crisis would be addressed. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 30 points, or 0.7 per cent, at 4,326.5, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Australia's retirement system the most sustainable in the world

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... pension reforms initiated as a condition of the austerity packages from the International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank, the retirement age in Greece is still low and public replacement rates (the percentage of a worker's pre-retirement income ...