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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
The Australian share market may open higher, after European exchanges gained on optimism the global economy is starting to recover while US markets were little changed. At 0742 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... $33.97, while rival Rio Tinto gained $2.27, or 3.71 per cent, to $63.41. The four major banks all advanced. Commonwealth Bank added 76 cents, or 2.14 per cent, to $36.26, ANZ advanced 22 cents to $15.52, National Australia Bank increased 34 cents to ...

Conservative strategies pay for ITC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
Forestry group ITC banks on its prudent business model to ride the crisis facing the agribusiness sector after Timbercorp and Great Southern went into administration. Adam Redman, spokesperson at ITC, said the firm's key business is forestry, a key ...

Diamonds are an investor's best friend

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
Move over bonds and cash - precious rocks, avant-garde art and collectible cars are now gaining favour as "alternative" investments for some of the world's richest high net worth investors. According to a London-based Datamonitor wealth investment analyst ...

Insurance shopping goes online

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... little take-up. "We've been focused on growing our wholesale business and retail advice business through advisers and our bank assurance business through Commonwealth Bank and BankWest," said Swanson. Allianz is a partner of the insurance industry's ...

Easing Libor pains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
No more Libor pains. The trillions of dollars flooding the financial system have already bought optimism for an eventual economic recovery - now it is also buying trust. Trust among banks, that is. Yesterday, I talked about the Libor/OIS spread - a ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 63 points higher at 3,815. In news on Tuesday, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Glenn Stevens will address a Canadian Australian Chamber of Commerce breakfast. The RBA will ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... ex-dividend. "It's dragging quite a bit on the financial sector and all of the other banks are in the red, with National Australia Bank doing the best. "There's been quite a drop in Macquarie Group shares as well." Shares in Macquarie Group were down ...

Investors rush to oil ETCs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
Exchange traded commodity (ETC) provider, ETF Securities,enjoyed a $1.2 billion rise in inflows into oil ETCs in the first four months of this year. Inflows into oil ETCs were more than two times the flows recorded during 2008 with assets under management ...

CBA launches capital protection funds

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has launched a new capital-protected investment, Capital Series Compass, which offers investors a choice of two investment themes - an Australian share market or Australian/Hong Kong blend. The Capital Series Compass offers ...