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Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... full year profit 27 per cent, to $1.6 billion, beating both market expectations and its own guidance. NAB went into a trading halt on Thursday after announcing that it will engage in a mammoth $5.5 billion capital raising. The Commonwealth was up 80 ...

Macquarie profit beats forecast

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... reflects the return on many years of investment across the business, enabling the group to further capitalise on improved trading conditions. This resulted in a significant increase to Macquarie's operating income and profit, with five of the six operating ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... ended 1.45 per cent lower. Mainland Chinese markets took a dive on worries regulators may tighten control over margin trading, a practice which allows investors to trade with borrowed money. The China Securities Regulatory Commission on Thursday initially ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... half cash profit of $3.32 billion on Thursday. The result, while an increase, was below expectations. NAB has gone into a trading halt after also announcing that it'll tap shareholders for $5.5 billion in a massive capital raising. The Commonwealth was ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... cash. TPG and iiNet's shares are are untraded, having last traded at $8.79 and $10 respectively, both are due to resume trading later on Wednesday. TPG's takeover rival M2 fell 28 cents, or 2.5 per cent, to $10.83. It had also bid for iiNet with a share ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... due out. And in equities news, News Corp releases third quarter earnings, the Commonwealth Bank issues its March quarter trading update and Woolworths releases its third quarter sales results. In Australia, the market on Tuesday gave up all of its gains ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... Frankfurt's DAX 30 index climbed 1.44 per cent to 11,619.85 points and the CAC 40 in Paris added 0.70 per cent to 5,081.97. Trading was closed in London due to a holiday. Madrid's Ibex-35 gained 0.39 per cent and Milan's FTSE Mib advanced 0.75 per cent ...

ASIC says AUD spike "not misconduct"

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... RBA announced it was keeping cash rates on hold at 2.25% on April 7, finding that so far it has been linked to automated trading processes and not misconduct. As reported in Financial Standard on April 8, the Australian dollar rose to 76.07 US cents ...

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... taking root. How so? How so is because the denizens of Wall Street only see the bad - well at least, for the past two trading days. The "good is good" and "bad is good" meme didn't apply. The S&P 500 index fell by 0.4% the day the US Commerce Department ...

Modi under the spotlight

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... said. "ETF products take time to develop, they can take two or three years before investors and advisers get comfortable trading with them, especially when we're talking about a new region or a new asset class," he added, and noted that while many investment ...