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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
... Australian Bureau of Statistics releases its building approvals data for March. The Australian Industry Group and Commonwealth Bank Australia release the Performance of Services Index (Australian PSI) for April. The Australian Office of Financial Management ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
The Australian share market was slightly lower at noon as bank stocks fell from higher opening levels and resources stocks continued their fall on the proposed new mining tax. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 8.2 points, or 0.17 ...

Troubled Greece to freeze pensions

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... revive its ramshackle economy. Greece reached the agreement with the IMF, the European Commission, and the European Central Bank in early May. The $157 billion financing package came with conditions, including budget cuts, a freeze in wages and pensions ...

Russell launches dividend ETF

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... provides access to around 50 blue chip stocks that typically deliver high dividends. The portfolio contains Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Westpac and NAB and some small weighting to Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton. Amanda Skelly, director of product development ...

Fundies caught in $5m heist

SFC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... and three of its senior officers following an investigation into their trading activities relating to China Construction Bank back in January 2009. At the time, Tiger Asia received confidential and price-sensitive information from a placing agent, which ...

Too clever by half

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating's L-A-W tax cuts. What's a done deal is more interest rate increases by the Reserve Bank of Australia - if not today - then at their meeting next month or the month after. Someone is also being too clever by half ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... contract was 20 points higher at 4,815 points, on a volume of 3,207 contracts. In economics news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia holds its monthly board meeting and is expected to announce its decision on interest rates at 1430 AEST. The Commonwealth ...

Macquarie targets specialist investments

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
Macquarie creates a new business team called Macquarie Specialist Investments, which will look after a suite of products under one roof including longevity solutions, investment lending and structured investments. According to a press statement, MSI ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
... of investors to Greece's debt woes, a weak US lead, an unexploded bomb in New York City, and China's decision to increase bank reserve ratios, he said. "With the Henry tax review, people don't fully understand the whole saga behind that and I think we're ...

Ord Minnett raises $600 million

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
Ord Minnett breaks away from its traditional stockbroking roots by expanding into term deposits, a move that raised more than $600 million in funds in the past six months alone. Tim Gunning, chief executive at Ord Minnett, has only been at the firm ...