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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... downward movement which will we good for buyers. (But) it's steady as she goes today." The banks were mixed. Commonwealth Bank gained 14 cents at $35.59, Westpac dropped 21 cents to $18.93, while National Australia Bank put on 21 cents to $21.85. ANZ ...

FOS gears up to combat record complaints

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is on a hiring spree, increasing staff numbers by around 25 per cent in around nine months to cope with record levels of complaints across the financial services market. Colin Neave, chief ombudsman at FOS, said ...

Ten years is too short: CBI

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... had widened to $100 billion - a deterioration of $171 billon from 12 months ago. British Airways, BT, Invensys and Royal Bank of Scotland for instance now have total pension liabilities that are more than double their equity market value.

Perpetual proposes caps on exec and board pay

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... volumes in securitisation markets remain low by historical standards, Perpetual continues to play a leading role in a number of bank re-purchase agreement programs and government-supported mortgage backed securities issuances," said Savage. But while ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... ABN Amro Morgans private client adviser Bill Bishop said the trading day would continue to be fairly flat. "Some of these bank shares are heading down, but it is a rather directionless day," Mr Bishop told AAP. "All in all, it's been a satisfactorily ...

HSBC appoints Australia CEO

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009

We've left bottom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
Equity markets have come a long way after hitting their lows in March. Their run-up was first measured in days, day stretched into weeks and now...months. The optimism engendered by the slowly mounting economic indications that the market has left the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... lower at 3,743. In economic news on Tuesday, the Melbourne Institute releases its wages report for the May quarter. Reserve Bank of Australia board member Jillian Broadbent is due to address a Queensland University of Technology Business Leaders' Forum. ...

Undue credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
Those who forget the lessons of the past are doomed to repeat it. Are we again giving credit ratings agencies undue credit? Equity and bond markets have been shaken by Standard & Poor's warning that it might downgrade the UK's sovereign credit rating. ...

CMC continues broking push

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... competitors are starting to find themselves dealing with their competitors. One of the things we can offer is that we're a non bank aligned provider of stockbroking service and that is something that is really starting to get traction," said Odes. For ...