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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average, which added 12.25 points, or 0.09 per cent, at 13,494.61. The broad-based S&P 500 was stronger, gaining 5.24 points, or 0.36 per cent, at 1,450.99, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite added 15.19, or 0.49 per ...

APRA issues final Basel III reforms

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... credit growth and other indicators point to a system-wide build up of risk. Dr John Laker chairman of APRA said that the stronger Australian banking system that will emerge from the Basel III reforms will be better placed to absorb future shocks, whatever ...

Strong premium growth countered by claims costs

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
While Australia's insurers have seen stronger growth in premiums, they have also seen insurance profits impacted by net claims and reinsurance costs during the last financial year, according to KPMG. KPMG's General Insurance Survey 2012 found that gross ...

Market wrap - afternoon

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
... shares were 22 cents weaker at $33.19 while Rio Tinto had shed 90 cents to $54.07. By comparison, banking stocks were stronger with NAB shares climbing 70 cents to $25.57, CBA rising 39 cents to $55.47, ANZ up 20 cents to $24.72, and Westpac increasing ...

QE3 will be different

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
The Federal Reserve's new easing programme, know as QE3, could be different from the first two rounds due to a stronger global economy and improvements within the US housing market, Fidelity said. According to Core Logic the level of negative equity ...

Market wrap - afternoon

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
... on Friday, retail brand owner Premier Investments has posted a 68 per cent profit rise and says recent sales have been stronger than in the previous year. Premier shares were up 48 points, or 9.27 per cent, to $5.66. National turnover was 226.7 million ...

Greater teamwork for ESG: Towers Watson

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
Governments, asset owners and corporations will need to work together in a stronger partnership to achieve a sustainable investment future, new research from Towers Watson has found. After surveying 22 asset managers in conjunction with Oxford University ...

Big Ben brings in the heavy guns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... also anticipates that inflation over the medium term likely would run at or below its 2 percent objective. To support a stronger economic recovery and to help ensure that inflation, over time, is at the rate most consistent with its dual mandate, the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... which was expected to be weak, was broadly in line with market expectations. Overnight, Wall Street closed marginally stronger. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 9.99 points to 13333.35, the S&P500 climbed three points to 1436.56 and the NASDAQ ended ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... eased slightly in early Asian exchanges on Monday. Tokyo ended flat, dipping 2.28 points to 8,869.37, with a slightly stronger yen compounding figures showing the Japanese economy grew at a slower pace than initially thought. Seoul was 0.25 per cent ...