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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
... for July. The Australian Office of Financial Management conducts a tender for $800 million of May 2013 bonds. The Reserve Bank of Australia will release its quarterly statement on Monetary Policy. In company news, AIG Australia Ltd chief executive Chris ...

Danger signs ahead but bargain stocks a-plenty: Faber

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
Leading contrarian investor Dr. Marc Faber wears his "ultra bearish" cap in his Australian visit, predicting another financial crisis could happen in the next five to 10 years - but even that doesn't mean there aren't any investment opportunities, particularly ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
The Australian sharemarket was higher at noon pulled up by the resources and financial sectors. At the 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was up 40.3 points, or 0.95 per cent, at 4304.8, while the broader All Ordinaries index gained 36.4 points ...

Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
... cent, it hardly causes many hands to shake. That Australian motto has made a comeback. She'll be right mate! Even the Reserve Bank of Australia agrees. It has shifted its monetary policy stance to neutral! OK, you may kick yourselves now. But...but. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... major banks during morning trade on Wednesday, ANZ fell 33 cents to $19.24, NAB was down 12 cents at $25.72, Commonwealth Bank dropped 73 cents to $43.78, but Westpac rose 11 cents to $22.31. Making news, BHP Billiton head of iron ore Ian Ashby says ...

ASIC approves Opes Prime settlement

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... Lynch. The second potential claim was a civil penalty and compensatory action against the directors of Opes Prime, and the ANZ bank. ASIC announced in March 2009 that it has put in place an Enforceable Undertaking (EU) from the ANZ in relation to ASIC's ...

Heffron and Martin joins Cooper Review

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
Meg Heffron and Ian Martin joins the Super System Review Panel as part-time members. Heffron is a principal of Heffron Ltd, a firm which specialises in providing self-managed superannuation fund services. She is also a member of the Tax Office's National ...

Higher...higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... posted in the first three months of 2009. Australia's monetary and fiscal stimuli have worked. So much so that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) warned last month of a developing bubble in the housing market. A bubble in a time of a "Great Recession" ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... index contract was 11 points higher at 4272. In economic news on Wednesday, the Australian Industry Group and Commonwealth Bank release their Australian Performance of Services Index (Australian PSI) for July. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... points higher at 4289 on 17,868 contracts. The four major banks all were higher following ANZ's agreement to buy some of Royal Bank of Scotland Plc's Asian businesses for about $US550 million ($A653.36 million), as it pursues its strategy to become a ...