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Bloomberg to make disclosure announcements via Twitter

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
... have been told which social media platform will be used, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced. The ruling applies to social media and other emerging digital communications platforms in the same way it applies to company websites. ...

Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... largest falls in overnight trade, due to political reasons including allegations of improper payments to members of Spain's ruling party and instability in Italy. Europe's leading blue chip Stoxx50 index was more than three per cent lower. In the US ...

Government gives tax certainty for deceased estates

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
... Investment earnings derived by superannuation funds from assets supporting pensions are exempt from tax. However, a draft ruling issued by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) in 2011 led to some uncertainty over eligibility for this tax exemption following ...

Spain here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... Australians -- and oh perhaps, the Kiwis -- to answer to. Perhaps S&P is just getting back at Australia for the Federal Court's ruling that it, according to reports, must pay around A$30 million in costs and damages to 13 local councils for its "misleading ...

Who you know overshadows rules: Freehills view on Asia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
Australian institutional investors eyeballing Asian investment opportunities need to understand not only their investment markets, but how different Asian business networks and regulatory systems are to Australian systems. Catching out novice Australian ...

Banks take Bell Group case to High Court

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... to the High Court. The banks, led by Westpac, lost an appeal in Western Australia's Supreme Court last month on a 2008 ruling that ordered them to pay $1.58 billion to the liquidators of former tycoon Alan Bond's company, Bell Group. In August the WA ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... "It's understandable given the ECB (European Central Bank) meeting, non-farm payrolls (in the US), the constitutional court ruling in Germany next week, the FOMC (US Federal Reserve's policy making body the Federal Open Market Committee) meeting that ...

Ruling returns $62 million to MF Global customers

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
... customers yesterday learned they would be entitled to the distribution of $62 million of funds pursued by creditors. A ruling in the NSW Supreme Court yesterday established that the $62.7 million under contest from MF Global Singapore in addition to ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012
... leaders would agree measures to stem the eurozone crisis. Falls in tech stocks ruled the day as the US Supreme Court's ruling in favour of the Obama administration's controversial health care law had little overall effect on trade. The Dow Jones Industrial ...

Go ahead Europe, make my day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
... call, an oxymoron? But never fear, Angela is here. Reuters reported German Chancellor Angela Merkel told politicians in her ruling coalition that Europe would not have shared total debt liability "as long as I live". The anti-austerity crusaders now ...