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Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
... Thursday amid worries that hedge funds and other traders are nervous about entering into long-term trades with the Wall Street bank weakened by heavy mortgage market losses last year.

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2008
... per cent, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said today. At 1203 AEDT, ANZ had declined 21 cents to $21.84, Commonwealth Bank had fallen $1.17, or 2.8 per cent, to $40.65, National Australia Bank was down 69 cents, or 2.43 per cent, to $27.66 and Westpac ...

Consumer confidence plummets

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2008
... confidence has plunged 17 percentage points, signaling the economy may be about to slow just enough to allow the Reserve Bank to start dropping interest rates. The news is contained in the latest Sensis consumer report which measures confidence across ...

FitzGerald retires, Adams comes onboard

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2008
... will be succeeded by Tony Adams. FitzGerald, who will be retiring in December, has been with CFS GAM and the Commonwealth Bank Group for over eight years. He will step down from his current role in 30 June, and in the meantime will support the transition ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
... almost twice the rise in the indices overall. At 1222 AEDT, St George was up 7.7 per cent, or $1.74, to $24.34. Commonwealth Bank advanced $2.23, or 5.62 per cent, to $41.89 and National Australia Bank rose $1.51 to $28.71. Westpac was $1.15, or 5.24 ...

Central banks try again to lift liquidity

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
... dimension to the plan is that the US Fed will increase the currency swap arrangements it put in place with the European Central Bank and the Swiss National Bank by US$10 billion (to US$30 billion) and US$2 billion (to US$6 billion) respectively. The ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open significantly higher after news of a $US200 billion central bank liquidity injection boosted Wall Street overnight. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was up 195 points ...

Don Russell joins State Super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
... treasurer Paul Keating for two years. Prior to this, he held positions at the Commonwealth Treasury and consulted for the World Bank, Bankers Trust and Westpac Bank. "The government is on track to achieving its target of fully funding its superannuation ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
... there's a hell of a lot further to go. We're not buying and we're selling into strength." At 1203 AEDT, National Australia Bank declined 40 cents, or 1.51 per cent to $26.10, Commonwealth Bank fell 47 cents, or 1.21 per cent to $38.23, ANZ slid 28 cents ...

ANZ sets the scene for capital raising

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... more interest rate rises required in Australia to contain inflation but that last week's rate rise engineered by the Reserve Bank of Australia wasn't necessary either. The guts of the ANZ view is that organic rises in rates, generated by the elevated ...