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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... continuing to provide support to the markets." In the banking sector, Westpac was down 14 cents to $24.20, while Commonwealth Bank was up seven cents to $53.91. ANZ Banking Group fell six cents to $25.65 and NAB gained one cent to trade at $26.34. Wealth ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... AEDT, the March share price index futures contract was 13 points higher at 4,925. In economics news on Thursday, Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor (economic) Philip Lowe, and Westpac chief executive officer Gail Kelly address the Committee ...

Trouble not terribly troubling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
Dip buyers are coming out on top in the current financial market stakes. Perhaps they're even secretly hoping for a repeat of that 1.8 per cent one-day drop in the S&P 500 index late last month - back when Egyptians first tried to prise Pharaoh Mubarak's ...

Grass greener for local bourse without SGX

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
Shareholders and clients of the Australian Stock Exchange will be worse off on many counts if the deal with the Singapore Stock Exchange goes through, despite the concessions announced yesterday, experts warned. Professor Peter Swan from the School ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... continued to drive growth. Rio Tinto fell 26 cents to $87.88. In banking, Westpac was up 23 cents at $24.54, while Commonwealth Bank was up 52 cents at $53.82. ANZ Banking Group was steady $25.48 and NAB was up two cents at $26.20. News Corporation shares ...

Headlining the core

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... cost of goods and services continue to head north. Last night's report that UK inflation jumped to 4.0 per cent - double the Bank of England's target ceiling -- in the year to January from 3.7 per cent in the previous month has added tinder to the burning ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... results from British lender Barclays, which were more encouraging. Barclays jumped 3.0 per cent to 320.15 pence after the bank said its 2010 net profit rose a third to over 3.5 billion and announced it had cut bonuses following a government-brokered ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... as bad debts and expenses fell and income increased. At 1024 AEDT, Westpac was up one cent at $24.43, while Commonwealth Bank was down 21 cents at $53.63. ANZ Banking Group was nine cents higher at $25.74 and NAB was down 11 cents at $26.19. The highest ...

BT earnings up despite floods

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... and Victoria, as well as Cyclone Yasi, continues to unravel. These claims are expected to reach $30 million in 2Q11. The bank did, however, take the opportunity to put a positive slant on the abundance of flood claims, saying it had built 'stronger relationships ...

Fund managers eye Asian equities: RBC

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
Fund managers are casting their nets wider into the Asia Pacific region to deliver 'alpha', shunning China and India to boost their portfolio returns, a survey found. The RBC Capital Markets survey reported high levels of confidence in Asian equity ...