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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
The Australian stock market has received positive leads from the US and Europe overnight, as investors overlooked a litany of bad news. At 0905 AEDT, the June share price index contract was up 28 points at 4,750 points, on volume of 4,457 contracts. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... assets was improving as Australia's second biggest lender had a solid start to the year with good margins. National Australia Bank firmed 15 cents to $24.90, ANZ added 12 cents to $23.20, and Commonwealth Bank was 37 cents higher at $51.70. Brick and ...

KPMG investment consulting no direct threat

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... towards deal making and direct investments also marks the start of their transition to becoming a new form of investment bank, a development already in play for groups servicing the needs of industry super funds.

Chartwell dir Hoy jailed 13 yrs

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... representations to investors and over $5.8 million on behalf of Black Swan Holdings, of which he was a director, from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia based on false financial statements provided by Hoy. Chartwell was a Geelong-based company that allegedly ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... index contract was up 19 points at 4,689 points, on volume of 4,465 contracts. In economics news on Thursday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) was scheduled to publish its half-annual Financial Stability Review. RBA assistant governor (financial system) ...

Advisers compare insurance on smartphones

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... planners use, under the company brand of Blue Gum Technologies, Chandrahasan said. Blue Gum also counts the National Australia Bank, Commonwealth and MLC as clients. According to Zurich research conducted last year, about 47 per cent of financial advisers ...

Wingate profits from Everest stake

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
Fund manager Wingate Direct Investments has sold its 19.9 per cent investment in Everest Financial Group after receiving an anonymous bid for its stake, gaining 32 per cent on its original investment. The investment manager offloaded its stake in Everest ...

Finsia creates site for industry students

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
The Financial Services Institute of Australia (Finsia) aims to help students make their break into the industry with the launch of a new website. Finsia has set up an online service at www.finsiastudents.com to meet the needs of the growing number of ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... "We still have ongoing tensions in the Middle East though, so that still has the potential to affect risk appetite." The Bank of England is due to release minutes for its March Monetary Policy Committee meeting, during which it decided to keep interest ...

Tightrope walker

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
China's economy is overheating that the People's Bank of China (PBOC) had been tightening monetary policy in order to keep inflation under control. The US economy is not growing fast enough - and measured inflation has, thus far, remained benign - that ...