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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
... Exchange, however, the December Share Price Index futures contract was up 32 points at 3,600. In economic news today, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases financial aggregates data for October and the Housing Industry Association releases its state ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
... cent to $28.28 while Rio Tinto lost $20.26, or 31.71 per cent, to $43.64. All the major banks were down, with Commonwealth Bank dropping $1.03, or 3.03 per cent to $32.97, National Australia Bank down 15 cents, or 0.75 per cent at $19.72, ANZ losing ...

Cybercriminals target fin services

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
... June. That's a big sum considering stolen credit card details retail for as little as 10 cents to US$25 per card while stolen bank account details sell for between US$10 and US$1,000. But the stakes are magnified when the average credit card data, sold ...

Time to acknowledge the best: HESTA

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
... ($2,500 travel and $2,500 education grants) and Nurse of the Year ($5,000 travel and $5,000 education grants). Members Equity Bank is the sponsor of the $25,000. In recent years, the awards have attracted up to 700 nominations, said Corboy. The awards ...

Ho hum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
... yesterday's rally in the domestic market as due to investor optimism following the US government's bail out of its once biggest bank - Citigroup. More likely, the Australian stock market was just following the random walk on Wall Street, where the night ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
... $2.40, or 10.27 per cent at $25.78, while Rio gained $3.93, or 6.57 per cent, at $63.73. Among the financials, Commonwealth Bank added $1.45, or 4.8 per cent at $31.67, National Australia Bank was up 78 cents, or 4.15 per cent, at $19.58, ANZ was up ...

Dragon still on the rise

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
... there are drawbacks - Chinese companies are opaque compared to their Western counterparts and Aussie investors will need to bank on proper research to select where they'd like to invest. "You have to get intimate information because Chinese businesses ...

Unlisted still king: MTAA Super

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
... Fund, while Macquarie has advised that 99 per cent of the securities in the MTF are eligible for the government guarantee on bank deposits. A small residual cash component is on deposit with the National Australia Bank, which is also eligible for the ...

No more short-selling: IML

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
One of the country's long-established value fund manager Anton Tagliaferro has urged the Federal Government to re-instate the shorting ban because short-selling threatens the ability of listed companies to raise much-needed equity capital in the next ...

Snowball FUA grows $700m

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
... meeting, Snowball managing director Tony McDonald said the group's net debt, which represents $2 million, and its enhanced bank facility meant the group is well placed for growth. The group's past financial year buying spree not only added more than ...