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Cbus defends member contact sharing policy

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... defended its policy of releasing members' details to 'sponsoring organisations' in order to chase up arrears, following yesterday's Royal Commission hearing into the improper release of members' contact details. In yesterday's hearing in Melbourne, Cbus ...

YBR requests trading halt ahead of buyout announcement

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and is expected to announce an acquisition. YBR requested the trading halt yesterday and said it did so "pending the release of an announcement in relation to a proposed acquisition and capital raising." The company ...

All that jazz, all nonsense

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... quarter of 2015, rather than the first three months of 2016, Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Jan Hatzius wrote in a report yesterday." (Bloomberg) JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd. are reportedly also among those who moved their ...

CBA's Narev leaves key questions unanswered

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) chief executive Ian Narev's main message during yesterday's address to the media was that the bank has switched to "a spirit of openness," but he left a number of key questions unanswered. "Over the past few weeks perhaps the ...

CBA reaction too slow, too little, too late

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... slammed by several stakeholders for being too slow, too little and too late. Speaking at a Melbourne Institute event yesterday, Treasurer Joe Hockey said: "Clearly the Commonwealth Bank was just too slow to get to this point." Hockey, whose mother-in-law ...

TWU defends mandatory TWU Super contributions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... fund upon them, which there is a lot of evidence to show will have inferior returns and undisclosed commissions." In yesterday's hearing with TWU Super chief executive Bill McMillin, it emerged that TWU Super had paid the TWU $1 million in the financial ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... strong recovery in Australian banking stocks was also giving the market a boost, IG Markets dealer Chris Weston said. "Yesterday, the banks got absolutely smashed. That was the sector that saw our market underperform," Mr Weston said. "But people are ...

CBA apologies again, refutes reckless culture accusations

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... and has refuted accusations that its sales-based culture was "reckless." The bank has issued a statement, following yesterday's release of the final report of the Senate Economics Committee inquiry into the performance of the Australian Securities and ...

James knows when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... than half market expectations for a 0.4% and follows a 0.1% fall in the previous month. Data like this - along with yesterday's disappointing durable goods orders reports - tells me that the US economy is not in a hurry to go gangbusters... so will the ...

But they said it was Iraq

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... clicked, and I clicked, and I clicked but I can't find no... no, no, no... no mention of that which was finger-pointed for yesterday's sharp fall on Wall Street. Yes, Virginia there wasn't any mention of Iraq. Wall Street rebounded overnight despite ...