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Women in Super help raise $2.1m for breast cancer

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
... Lauren Couter raised $12,145; South Australia's Natalie Barton raised $4,756 and Tasmania's David Williams raised $1,285. ME Bank, the major sponsor of the Mother's Day Classic, raised an extra $42,477 for the National Breast Cancer Foundation by encouraging ...

Inflation no show

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
... come in at 0.7 per cent and below -- market consensus is for a one per cent gain in the second quarter -- expect the Reserve Bank of Australia not to lift interest rates next week. If it's above that, well... there goes another chunk of your disposable ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
... 117.79 points at 21,091.18. SHANGHAI - Chinese shares closed up 2.26 per cent as confidence improved a day after the central bank released an upbeat quarterly economic review. The Shanghai Composite Index, which covers both A and B shares, was up 58.30 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
... oil price," Mr Taylor said. He said the finance sector was again leading the market higher. At noon AEST, the Commonwealth Bank was nine cents higher at $52.17, National Australia Bank was up 11 cents at $25.08, ANZ had risen 13 cents to $23.06 and Westpac ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
The Australian stock market is likely to open in positive territory after the Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced gains for the fourth consecutive day. At 0733 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was up ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... stocks had largely held onto opening gains. "Most notably we have seen a pick-up in the banks, particularly Commonwealth Bank and Westpac," Mr Lakos said. "That has probably been helped a little bit by the stress tests that all came through out of Europe ...

AIA signs credit card insurance deal with Citibank

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... financial impact of this deal is considerable," he said. Jessica Power, director of insurance and telesales at Citibank, said the bank has aggressive growth plans to expand its share of credit cards in the next five years. "We have worked with our partners ...

Deutsche strategy head joins Citi

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
Citigroup has appointed former Deutsche Bank executive, Tony Brennan, as head of equity market strategy for Australia and New Zealand. He joins from Deutsche Bank where he held a similar position. Brennan will report to Bruce Rolph, head of Citi Investment ...

House call

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
Don't bet your house on new home sales... at least, not yet! Wall Street is all a-flutter with welcomed news about the reported 23.6 per cent increase in new home sales to an annualised 330,000 units in June from the previous month. And what was last ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... cent, to 5,351.12. FRANKFURT - German stocks rose by 0.45 per cent, led by banking stocks in the first reaction to European bank stress tests. The DAX was up 27.87 points at 6,194.21 points. PARIS - French stocks rose by 0.81 per cent, also reacting ...