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REST Super to invest in transport infra

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
REST Industry Super and Cintra Infrastructures, have entered into an agreement to selectively invest and operate toll-road projects in Australia. As a result of the agreement, REST said its collaboration with Cintra will initially identify and develop ...

Board changes at Plan B

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... and chief financial officer have been appointed to the board of listed dealer group Plan B, after their company's takeover bid was made unconditional last month. In announcing the appointments, Plan B also said that Bryan Taylor, Craig Lubich and David ...

Trilogy takeover attempt piracy: LM

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... inaccurate and misleading information, and it is not in the best interests of fund investors. LM understands that the takeover bid was commenced by three (3) investors indirectly holding less than 10% of interests - not the 48% quoted by Trilogy - in ...

Good jobs bad jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... chair in the Oval Office at the West Wing of the White House in Washington. Good labour market news just a month before his bid for a second term? Hmmm. Conspiracy or not, the details of the payrolls report suggest that contender Mitt also have a point ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... at $25.20, after announcing plans to spend up to $1.5 billion on new mobile banking apps and upgrades of its branches in a bid to attract more customers. Its rivals were also in positive territory - CBA had risen 23 cents to $56.23, NAB was 19 cents ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... Europe. European stocks and the euro rallied on Monday as traders tracked Spanish debt strains and the revival of a merger bid by commodities sector giants Xstrata and Glencore. "It was a nice run for the Europeans after the Spanish banks passed the ...

Market wrap - AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... LONDON - European stocks and the euro rallied on Monday as traders tracked Spanish debt strains and the revival of a merger bid by commodities sector giants Xstrata and Glencore. In London the FTSE 100 index of top companies rose by 1.37 per cent to ...

Credit Suisse fined by ASIC

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
Credit Suisse Equities has paid $52,000 to ASIC for interference in market integrity due to use of the wrong trading strategy in its automated order processing system. The infringement occurred last May when a client erroneously initiated an unintended ...

Welcome to the QE Club

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... Market Committee (FOMC) on Thursday (US time) said it would buy $US40 million worth of mortgage-backed securities a month in a bid to lower long-term interest rates, which the Fed hopes will spur borrowing and spending. Locally, no major economic news ...