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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... Tinto lost 61 cents to $46.79. Fortescue metals added nine cents, or 4.09 per cent, to $2.29 a share. National Australia Bank reported its first quarter 2009 cash earnings will be around $1.1 billion after a deterioration in economic conditions saw bad ...

Focus on the good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
Whew! Finally a bit of good news. Or rather investors chose to see the good rather than the bad. US equities closed last night's trading up more than 1 per cent, reversing early losses brought on by reports that initial jobless benefit claims jumped ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... Housing Industry Association release their Australian Performance of Construction Index for January. At 1130 AEDT, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases its quarterly statement on monetary policy. In company news, News Corporation releases first half ...

Macquarie targets funds mgmt acquisitions

JOHN KAVANAGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
Macquarie Group is aiming to take advantage of anticipated divestments of wealth management businesses by its global banking and investment banking rivals to bulk up in funds management. Macquarie Funds Group (MFG) head Shemara Wikramanayake told analysts ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
... they're getting pounded by so many placements." ANZ dropped 65 cents, or 4.89 per cent, to $12.63 by 1205 AEDT, Commonwealth Bank shed 68 cents to $28.50, National Australia Bank lost 83 cents to $18.62 and Westpac gave up 55 cents to $15.92. Suncorp ...

ASIC blocks $2m Storm bonus

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
... and Investments Commission (ASIC) has obtained a court order preventing a payment of $2 million from Storm Financial to a bank account in which is held by Emmanuel and Julie Cassimatis. The sum was transferred from a Storm Financial account on 15 December ...

Suncorp chief departs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
... more recently, the acquisition and successful integration of Promina." In separate news, Suncorp appointed former St George Bank chief financial officer of wealth management and retail banking, Peter Loosmore, as chief financial officer of the firm's ...

John Kavanagh joins Financial Standard

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
Former BRW Sydney editor John Kavanagh joins Financial Standard's editorial team. Kavanagh, a freelance journalist who writes for the Sydney Morning Herald and online finance newsletter www.thesheet.com, will join Financial Standard as contributor. ...

Damned if you do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... in the ones handed in the last few months of 2008. In September, Rudd announced that the government would guarantee public bank deposits and wholesale funding to banks. Why the banks? Why not? We may never know whether this measure has prevented a bank ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... futures index was 27 points higher at 3,480. In economic news on Wednesday, the Australian Industry Group and the Commonwealth Bank release their Australian Performance of Services Index for January. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases retail ...