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Market flat at noon

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... actually held fairly steady both here and in the US despite the process resuming last night of bond yields rising." Among the banks, Westpac had lost 20 cents to $31.15, Commonwealth Bank had fallen 13 cents to $79.69, ANZ shed seven cents to $31.09 ...

New kid on the block

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... Bloomberg News, "The Shanghai Composite's median price-to-earnings ratio, which is less influenced by the nation's biggest banks than a market-capitalization weighted average, has climbed to 44. That level has been breached just twice during the past ...

Shares rise after four-days of losses

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
... past four sessions when fundamentally not too much has changed," he said. "Bargain hunters are out there looking at the banks and miners, which have been beaten up so badly, who are ready to take some risks on the expectation that the market will bounce ...

ASX lower for fourth day

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... many had hoped for, despite showing a better than expected 0.9 per cent growth during the March quarter. Among the major banks, the Commonwealth was down one cent to $81.56, while ANZ lost 11 cents to $31.18, Westpac was eight cents weaker at $31.80 ...

Australia underperforms as China slows down: Russell

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... fortunes are heavily tied to China's deteriorating demand for iron ore - and to the prospects of Australia's four major banks," Russell Investments chief executive for Asia Pacific Pete Gunning said. "With the chances of a prolonged downturn in China's ...

ASIC looking to introduce civil laws to punish corporates

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft has told a Senate Estimates hearing that the big six banks and regional counterparts have no excuse for poor corporate culture. During today's hearing Medcraft said ASIC meets with each ...

Banks lead Australian market lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... grew by 0.9 per cent in the March quarter and by 2.3 per cent over 12 months to March, official figures show. Among the banks at 1200 AEST, Commonwealth Bank had shed 97 cents to $82.03, ANZ dipped 27 cents to $32.03, Westpac surrendered 36 cents to ...

PROFILE: IOOF managing director Chris Kelaher

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... lot of competition. We were able to access transactions without a lot of competition, acquisitions that none of the big banks were interested in because the scale of the buyout wouldn't move the dial for them." IOOF was "the only cashed up successful ...

Shares fall ahead of RBA rate call

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... be watching with the RBA decision is what they have to say in terms of any easing bias or not,"A Spooner said. Among the banks at 1022 AEST, Commonwealth Bank had dipped 47 cents to $84.01, ANZ had declined 13 cents to $32.59, National Australia Bank ...

NAS loses VFMC, retains VicSuper

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... as at 31 December 2014. With $211 billion under custody, State Street is the fifth largest in the country behind global banks J.P. Morgan ($478 billion), BNP Paribas ($325 billion) and Citigroup ($270 billion). The five groups manage 77% of Australian ...