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Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... the Commonwealth Bank's soft quarterly profit and Woolworths' weak third-quarter sales result. The last of the big four banks, the National Australia Bank, released its first half cash profit of $3.32 billion on Thursday. The result, while an increase ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... has opened higher thanks to strong leads from Wall Street and a rally among the major mining stocks. However, the big four banks are weighing on the market after Westpac unveiled a flat first half cash profit of $3.78 billion, Australian Stock Report ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... $31.86, while Rio Tinto climbed $1.30 to $57.60 and Fortescue lifted nine cents, or four per cent, to $2.18. The big four banks were also higher, with the Commonwealth Bank up 80 cents at $91.51, National Australian Bank climbed 31 cents higher to $38.15 ...

Funds wrestling with liquidity problem

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... comfortable with the level of investment in bank debt, Neal was candid. "I'm slightly terrified by our exposure to the big four banks but it is hard to avoid - it's hard to know what to do with our short-term cash in particular." The question came from ...

Finance dominates top Australian companies list

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... insurance companies continue to feature prominently in IBISWorld's Top 1000 Australian companies report. Aside from the big four banks, which retain their place in the top 10, there were a further 134 financial and insurance companies in the list. Over ...

Global dividend growers suit retirement income

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... dominated by companies in just a few sectors and investors who rely on the bulk of their income coming from the big four banks, Telstra and Woolworths should consider seeking income from a high quality global equity portfolio. Capital Group's analysis ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
... to $29.28, Rio Tinto had lost 44 cents to $56.86 and iron or miner Fortescue Metals was flat at $2.00. Among the big four banks, the Commonwealth was down 28 cents at $91.04, Westpac was down 12 cents lower at $37.68, ANZ had fallen 10 cents to $35.34 ...

Big four banks missing out on customer wealth management

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
Australia's biggest banks are struggling to access their customers' wealth management business, according to the latest Roy Morgan Consumer Single Source Survey. The survey showed that all four banks have had difficulty cross-selling wealth management ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... Pharmaceutical Industries holds its annual general meeting. In Australia, the market on Wednesday finished higher with the big four banks lifting the share market out of the red earlier in the day. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 5.6 points, or ...

Happy Australian dollar Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... this land girth by sea... except for stoking the property prices, that is. So much so that three of the country's big four banks - ANZ, NAB and Westpac - are predicting not just one but two interest rate cuts this year. The CBA stands alone, expecting ...