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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... Macquarie Group among the worst performers. Its shares had sagged $1.81, or 5.4 per cent, to $31.68 at 1201 AEST. Commonwealth Bank was down 51 cents at $35.00, ANZ had slipped 17 cents to $15.24, Westpac had dropped 31 cents to $19.07 and National Australia ...

Westpac exec joins NAB Private Wealth

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
Former Westpac Private Bank state manager Will Hamilton moves to NAB Private Wealth to become the division's general manager of wealth services. Hamilton, who will report to Angela Mentis, executive general manager of NAB Private Wealth, was previously ...

Mixed reaction on shorting ban lift

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
From applause to criticism, industry reactions have been mixed towards ASIC's announcement today that it had lifted the ban on covered short selling of financial securities. ASIC today lifted the ban which was first put in place on 21 September last ...

India markets up 18pc on election

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... represent some of the best emerging market private equity opportunities this year. In addition, almost two months ago, the State Bank of India and Macquarie Group managed to raise over $1 billion in capital to invest in Indian infrastructure projects ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
... things like gold." Three of the four major banks were down in morning trade. Westpac had shed 12 cents to $19.32, Commonwealth Bank was down 23 cents at $35.37 and ANZ had slipped 15 cents to $15.48. National Australia Bank was the only major which made ...

No two ways about it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
Waiter, there's a fly in my soup. Financial markets stopped enjoying the tasty aroma of recovery in their soups last night after Standard & Poor's warned that it might downgrade the United Kingdom's AAA credit rating because of its widening budget deficit ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
... they have had a decent run of things recently." The four major banks all were weaker in morning trade. National Australia Bank fell 18 cents to $21.84, Westpac had shed 33 cents to $19.36, Commonwealth Bank was down 58 cents, or 1.6 per cent at $35.62 ...

Acronyms pull down USD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
... of 'too much of a good thing.' While we in the Southern Hemisphere were sleeping, the Fed was out shopping. The US central bank purchased US$7.7 billion worth of seven and 10-year US Treasury bonds as soon as it heard the opening bell on Wall Street. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
... average weekly ordinary time earnings data for the February quarter, and new motor vehicles sales data for April. The Reserve Bank of Australia releases its monthly bulletin. The Australian Office of Financial Management tenders 13, 26 and 39 week Treasury ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
... wait to follow the lead from Wall Street tonight." The four major banks all were weaker at 1202 AEST. National Australia Bank was down 17 cents at $21.84, Westpac had shed 36 cents to $19.70, Commonwealth Bank was down 17 cents at $35.98 and ANZ had ...