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Trade and chat at CMC Markets

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
... traders rarely have the oprotunity to speak to other traders about how they were trading, especially those who are outside metro areas." But CMC Markets is not limiting itself to just the Australian market. The company is hoping to make its TSN a global ...

Market Movers (10 July)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will release June Labour Force data at 11:30 AM today. Labour market surveys released earlier this week point to continuing weakness on the jobs front. The ANZ job ads survey released last Monday showed the ...

House prices volatile but chance of big fall lesson

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2008
... found Sydney value growth is flattening across the board, even in the traditional growth hotspots of the inner city and metro-coastal regions. In Melbourne overall growth rate has slowed considerably during 2008 with the first four months recording a ...

Advisers endorse rural insurance top guns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
Rabo Financial Advisers (RFA) is set to boost its risk insurance relationships with Aviva, Asteron and CommInsure after they were identified as leaders in providing risk insurance to primary producers and regional businesses. The financial planning ...

US property still has upside

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
... continues, but buyers are being far more discriminating. High quality assets with stable credit income streams in major metro areas are still trading at high prices. Everything else is problematic," said Herzbrun. Another silver lining is the shakeout ...

Consumer confidence plummets

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2008
Consumer 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 ...

Super advice for $199

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
Westpac throws a fresh challenge to the industry on making advice affordable after it introduced a low cost superannuation advice service this month. In an effort to help Australians with low superannuation balances receive financial advice, Westpac ...

Mariner ups stake in German property

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2007
... seed assets for Mariner's real estate investment platform. The retail property is let to international supermarket chain Metro Group's subsidiary Real. The office building is leased to the State of ThA1/4ringen as a police headquarters. The two new properties ...

APEC Public Holiday

The NSW Government has announced that today is a public holiday for the Sydney metropolitan area to coincide with the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) Summit. The Financial Standard daily newsletter will resume on Monday, September 10.

Regulators clamp down on illegal super schemes

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) have found that the number of promoters of illegal access of super schemes has increased and warned consumers that those who sign up face tough legal ...