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AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
... Woodside Petroleum up 33 cents at $35.82, Oil Search rising one cent to $8.29 and Santos up two cents to $8.12. Among the major banks, Commonwealth Bank was 60 cents weaker at $92.38, ANZ was down 21.5 cents at $34.685, National Australia Bank had dropped ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
... downgraded gross domestic product forecasts in the short term but 2016 still looked a bit more optimistic. Among the major banks at 1200 AEDT, Commonwealth Bank was 28 cents lower at $92.99, ANZ had eased 11 cents to $34.87, and National Bank had dipped ...

Currency warriors, mount horses and draw swords

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
... gain in the previous month. And this was before the latest round of "surprises" - monetary policy easing by the central banks of Australia, India, Singapore, China, Peru, Turkey, Russia and Canada; QE by the ECB; more (or longer) QE by the BOJ; and the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
... pharma offerings. LONDON - Europe's stock markets have shrugged off concerns about Greece after the ECB restricted Greek banks' access to a key source of cash, and Germany signalled its unwillingness to reduce Athens' debt. After spending most of Thursday ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... it at the moment," he said. AMP was up 8.5 cents at $6.025 and Macquarie Group had added 46.5 cents at $65.215. Among the banks, Commonwealth Bank was up 71 cents at $91.50, ANZ had gained five cents at $34.67, Westpac had added two cents to $36.25 ...

Consumers need super default safety net: ISA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... findings, bank-owned super funds are continuing a campaign to scrap the safety net," ISA chief executive David Whiteley said. Banks, he added, "want to bundle up business banking with their super products and sell this to employers. This could result ...

ASIC to face legal action over Storm Financial

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... for its alleged delay in taking action against Storm Financial and for allegedly acting to protect the interests of major banks, particularly the Commonwealth Bank, rather than customers. The claim is brought by Levitt Robinson Solicitors on behalf of ...

Easing here, there and everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... what about China?", the People's Bank of China (PBOC) delivered its own. The PBOC announced that from today, it is cutting banks' reserve requirement ratio (RRR) by 50 bps - the first reduction since a similar 50bps cut back in May 2012. This would take ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
... Australian stocks." The market is still riding on the sentiment of Tuesday's Reserve Bank interest rate cut, giving the banks further gains, Mr Weston added. BHP had added $1.415, or nearly five per cent, to $32.065, Rio Tinto was up $1.90 at $60.48 ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... Rio Tinto gained 94 cents to $58.41, while iron ore pure-play Fortescue Metals was four cents higher at $2.35. Among the banks, Commonwealth rose one cent to $89.69, National Australia Bank gained 24 cents to $35.89, ANZ added 25 cents to $33.62 and ...