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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
... Leighton Holdings' sharp decline after resuming trading, following a downgrade in its earnings guidance and proposed capital raising, also was a negative for the local bourse. At 1211 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 45.7 points, or 0.93 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... bailout, chief among them separating retail from investment banking. The Independent Commission on Banking also proposed raising capital ratios but stopped short of more radical proposals that some had feared would cost the banks huge amounts of fresh ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... discuss the terms of its bailout, whispered to total around 80 billion euros. Oh yes, there's also the issue of the ECB raising interest rates by 25 bps to a whopping 1.25 per cent. Been there, done that! There was Fed rhetoric overnight. Fed Vice Chairman ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... halt and last traded at $28.94. "It looked as though everyone has brushed the Leighton forecast downgrade and capital raising," Ms Chan said. "They have just ignored that completely." Ms Chan said the major retail banks were weaker, perhaps due to some ...

Nine to propel YBR into retail sector

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... completion of a merger between ITS Capital Investments and YBR, which will become YBR Group, and the subsequent public raising of at least $6 million. The deal is subject to due dilligence and YBR shareholder approval with a view to closing withing 90 ...

Super future hangs on High Court decision

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... Roy Morgan had failed to win its case in the lower courts so far but was granted leave to appeal to the High Court after raising the issue of whether the entire super guarantee legislation was unconstitutional. "They got leave to appeal so there is always ...

RBA worries not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... they get under way." Inflation will spike in the March quarter because "Production losses due to weather are temporarily raising prices for some agricultural produce... but these prices should fall back later in the year." This was how Reserve Bank of ...

Govt claims MRRT as super victory

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
The Federal Government said yesterday's agreement to mining tax changes has helped ensure the raising of the superannuation guarantee from 9 per cent to 12 per cent. Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten said in a media release that Minerals Resources Rent ...

Investors in line for Fincorp payout

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... and weaknesses of different claims. "These laws mean that when a company like Sandhurst acts as trustee for a company raising money from the public, and when the fund raising company involved folds, there might still be an avenue for justice and the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... traders. "The consensus isn't that the UK will hike rates, but certainly speculation that the Bank of England will start raising rates soon." Meanwhile, the local bond market was mixed. At 1200 AEDT on the ASX 24, the June 10-year bond futures contract ...