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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... companies news, David Jones Ltd was due to release first half results. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's (ACCC) bid to prevent Metcash Ltd's $215 million takeover of Franklins continues in the Federal Court. Austar United Communications ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... companies news, New Hope Corporation was due to release first half results. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's (ACCC) bid to prevent Metcash Ltd's $215 million takeover of Franklins continues in the Federal Court. In further court action ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... international merchandise imports data for February. In companies news, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's (ACCC) bid to prevent Metcash Ltd's $215 million takeover of Franklins continues in the Federal Court. The public examination ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... the Federal Court in Sydney, the case continues between Metcash Ltd and the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) over Metcash's attempt to take over Franklins supermarkets. On Monday, Australian shares closed at a 14-week low as fears ...

Aus equities forecast to return 20pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
... sector is massively cashed up and have ridiculously strong balance sheets," he said. Stammer concedes that the regulator, ACCC, will make it very difficult for large corporate M&A to go through but takeovers could come from offshore where companies would ...

AXA's North man joins NAB

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
... fastest-growing platform on the market last year, with its superannuation business up 400 per cent in 2009. The competition regulator ACCC cited North as one of its key concerns when it blocked NAB's bid to buy AXA Asia Pacific. Michael Clancy, executive ...

ACCC gives go ahead to SGX-ASX deal

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
... - setting the stage for a volatile debate next year over whether the deal is in the national interest. Approval from the ACCC was not expected to be a major stumbling block for the deal, given that the ASX effectively has a local monopoly, and competition ...

AMP unveils $6.34 per share bid for AXA

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... New Zealand businesses at more than $4 billion and the Asian business at more than $10 billion. AMP has already received ACCC approval for a takeover of AXA APH after its original bid for the company back in November '09 was given the green light by ...

MLC to launch platform

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
... the attraction of AXA's AP North wealth.net retail investment platform. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) had expressed concern that NAB owning both Navigator and North wealth.net retail investment platform would restrict competition ...

ACCC responds to NAB/AXA deal criticism

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... timeliness" in making decisions about NAB's merger with AXA. In a speech made in Sydney yesterday, Graeme Samuel, chairman of the ACCC, called the timeliness for merger reviews "best practice". "[They] are considerably shorter than many other jurisdictions ...