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Fed move checks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
When the going gets tough, the Fed gets going. Ok, ok. I was wrong - no need to throw it back at my face. I expected the US Federal Reserve to provide a circuit breaker in the form of a third QE. I was wrong! Big Ben did this small Ben one better. B-I-N-G-O! ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
The Australian share market has received negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with markets falling as US policy-makers continue to search for a resolution of the country's immediate debt problem. At 0728 AEST, the local September share price ...

Bank of Melbourne relaunches with plans for 90 new branches

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... You look at the market share for regional banks around the country, they have at least 22% market share in every state except Victoria where the share is closer to 13%." "There's a big need in Victoria for a local regional bank," he said. St George had ...

They will deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... negative from stable just two months ago) - the US bond market would have been in a shambles by now. Or it might be because except for a few 'old timers', no one has ever experienced an American default. Not even US President Barack Obama. He was not ...

US Fed hints at QE3

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
Hints of a third round of quantitative easing from the US Federal Reserve emerged from the minutes of a Federal Open Market Committee meeting released overnight. The FOMC minutes from its June 21-22 meeting revealed that policy makers disagree on whether ...

Telstra Super cuts insurance premiums

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
Telstra Super has made changes to its insurance design, reducing the price of income protection, death and total and permanent disability (TPD) cover. The fund, insured by TOWER Australia, has cut income protection and death and TPD premiums by up to ...

Just do it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... rallied because Nike's numbers told it differently. People are spending - not only in America but all around the world (except in Japan). They may be paying more for petrol and food, but they're still buying. - shoes and sporting goods, of all things ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
The Australian stock market was firmer at noon, as negative offshore leads gave way to improved investor sentiment after the release of domestic jobs data for May. At 1205 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 17.2 points, or 0.38 per cent, at ...

Treasury Group appoints CEO

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
Treasury Group (TRG) has announced Andrew McGill as the successor to Mark Burgess as chief executive officer. The appointment is effective from 12 July 2011. "We conducted an extensive local and international search for the right candidate and we are ...

Fear is in the air

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... John Paul Young for cannibalising his classic) Another day, another down day on Wall Street -- and in Europe, and in Asia (except Japan), and in North and South America, and in Africa and the Middle East. To be sure, there were a handful that produced ...