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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
... overnight, the highest level since it was floated in December 1983. The previous post-float high was 110.11 cents on May 3. Bank of New Zealand currency strategist Mike Burrowes said the local unit did well to retain much of its value overnight amid ...

DC theatrics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
Sorry folks, no matter how sick you and I already are of watching Washington's game of chicken, it remains the main game in town. If you believe the headlines, Wall Street dropped big time last night because the players are still waiting for the other ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... Banks and financials were also down, with ANZ worst hit, falling 23 cents, or 1.07 per cent, to $21.32. National Australia Bank was down 17 cents at $24.65, Westpac fell 20 cents to $21.16 but Commonwealth added three cents to $50.25. Gloucester Coal ...

Other play factors

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... grand theatrics that is the US debt ceiling negotiations this time. Today, I refer these questions to our very own Reserve Bank of the Advance Australia Fair. Financial market speculation over the outlook for Australian interest rates will come to a ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... the back of the weekend's fatal high-speed rail crash in China. However, Mumbai fell 1.29 per cent after the Indian central bank announced a surprise 50 basis points rise in interest rates as it struggles to tame inflation. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand ...

Fund flows push life risk market to $9.5b

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... firm Plan For Life said in a report on life insurance risk premium inflows and sales released yesterday. National Australia Bank / MLC Group topped the list in terms of market share earning $1.4 billion or 15.1% of the market, the research said. The ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... party that may come from, so the market is fairly neutral." Banks and financials all were positive at noon, with Commonwealth Bank up 65 cents, or 1.31 per cent, at $50.19. National Australia Bank was up 25 cents, or 1.02 per cent, at $24.88, ANZ rose ...

ANZ restructure gathers pace with new planning head

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
ANZ Wealth has promoted Luke Symons to head of financial planning and brought in former Colonial First State head of strategy and planning Greg Hansen, as Paul Barrett's advice and distribution restructure continues to take shape. Barrett arrived from ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... September share price index futures contract was 22 points higher, however, at 4,535. In economics news on Tuesday, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Glenn Stevens addresses The Anika Foundation in Sydney, and the Housing Industry Association ...

Bank of Melbourne relaunches with plans for 90 new branches

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
The first accounts were opened today at the new Bank of Melbourne, as Westpac rebrands its St George group and embarks on an expansion drive to capture the Victorian regional market. Scott Tanner, chief executive, said the bank today opened three new ...