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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2008
... cents, or 2.31 per cent, to $7.08. Mr Sebastian said the market had been impressed by news that Australia's fifth largest bank, St George, had reaffirmed its 2008 full year earnings guidance after posting a 12.5 per cent rise in cash profit for the first ...

Market Wrap - Morning

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2008
... Exchange's September share price index futures contract was 19 points higher at 5,040. On the agenda today, National Australia Bank Ltd releases its monthly business survey for July, and a St George Bank Ltd provides an operational briefing. In equities ...

Covered short-selling unmasked

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2008
... he said. Using an example on how a company's shareprice can be manipulated, Bryant said that anyone with $27,500 in their bank account can short-sell twice the daily volume of shares in a company with a market cap of $198 million that presently sits ...

AusSuper drives MEB review

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2008
Members Equity Bank is to be subjected to a strategic review of its direction by its four largest industry fund shareholders. Melbourne consultants LEK have been contracted by AustralianSuper, Cbus, HESTA and Host Plus in the wake of three new board ...

What property bust?

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2008
The assumption that the property market is going to crash is a myth, said SG Hiscock & Company. Speaking last week at an EQT Trustees lunch, Stephen Hiscock, managing director of SG Hiscock & Co, has ruled out a recurrence of a property market crash ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2008
... overnight," Mr Vaughan said. "The banks are all higher but the market is still sceptical about the rally." Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Ltd said it expected to continue to grow shareholder value after booking a 40 per cent rise in annual profit and its ...

Growth and inflation updates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2008
... 32.6 in the previous month. Europe: Following last week's 'no-event' on monetary policy meetings by the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England (BoE), European financial markets will be focused mainly on Eurozone GDP growth and inflation ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2008
... price index futures contract on the Sydney Futures exchange was 72 points higher at 5,034. Today's events include the Reserve Bank of Australia's quarterly statement on monetary policy and the Australian Bureau of Statistics' lending finance data for ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2008
... cash earnings growth of between six and eight per cent. Its shares rose 25 cents, or 1.08 per cent, to $23.40. Commonwealth Bank of Australia was down 36 cents to $43.59, National Australia Bank shed 64 cents, or 2.48 per cent to $25.13, ANZ lost 54 ...

Friendster to fundster

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2008
... message out because...[online] search is part of every purchase," he said. But drawing on his years at successful UK online bank FirstDirect, Kimber stressed that it's still the people, not the technology, that can transform a company. "It's people that ...