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Risk-free no more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2010
... retailer Lowe's in Mooresville, North Carolina, drugmaker Abbott Laboratories of Abbott Park, Illinois, and Toronto-based Royal Bank of Canada have also been below Treasuries, Trace data show." How could this be? Aren't corporate bonds supposed to be ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2010
The Australian share market has received positive leads from overseas, with Wall Street indices and the oil price up. Metals prices were lower, however. At 0721 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 26 points higher ...

Fundie backs strategy with own nest egg

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
... invested in the most sturdy financials at a time when the sector was battered. Shunning shares in Citi and, at one time, Bank of America, the fund invested in JP Morgan. "It was about taking the strongest players in an uncertain sector. For JP Morgan ...

Instos lobby for Main Street

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
US institutional investors and experts have banded together to offer lawmakers a list of "do's and don'ts" in governance reforms as the Senate Banking Committee mulls over a bill by chairman Christopher Dodd to plug regulatory gaps exposed by the GFC. ...

AXA APH extends deal with NAB

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
AXA Asia Pacific Holdings (AXA APH) has agreed with National Australia Bank (NAB) to extend the agreement until 29 March this year but all eyes remain on the ACCC's decision next month. The agreement means the terms deed has been extended from 17 December ...

In a better place

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
... some are now predicting kRudd's budget to return to surplus earlier than the government's 2015 timeline. The Commonwealth Bank expects a return to surplus by 2013/14, Access Economics predicts the budget back in the black by 2012/13 and the ANZ by next ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2010
... back of some of the overnight metals moves as well," Mr Milroy said. Australia's major lenders were mixed, with Commonwealth Bank down 20 cents at $56.41, and Westpac losing seven cents at $27.23. But National Australia Bank climbed three cents to $26.78 ...

ASIC a step closer to Storm resolution

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2010
... those investors who may not have internet access. In relation to offers made to Storm investors as part of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) Storm Resolution Scheme, ASIC considers that Storm investors need to decide for themselves, with the benefit ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2010
The Australian share market has received mixed leads from overseas, with Wall Street indices flat to mixed, gold higher, but silver, copper and oil all lower. At 0728 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was eight ...

BT Super for Life hits the mark

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
BT Financial Group won 5,000 new BT Super for Life customers in just six weeks through Westpac-owned channels Bank SA and St.George Bank. Melanie Evans, head of superannuation at BT Financial Group, said the successful campaign are due to the bank's ...