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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
... data is due for release this Friday. In company news, Newcrest Mining Ltd reports half year results, as does Telecom Corporation of New Zealand. Mooter Media Ltd holds a general meeting. The Australian share market was dragged back from earlier highs ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... 1130 AEDT, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases its quarterly statement on monetary policy. In company news, News Corporation releases first half results in New York, National Australia Bank provides a market update, and medical equipment maker Resmed ...

BNP Paribas upgrades client support

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
BNP Paribas Securities Services and New South Wales Treasury Corporation have teamed up to launch My Queries, a client support system developed by BNP Paribas, in Australia. My Queries is a web based automated query management and client support system ...

Sherry's to-do list for 2009

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
Senator Nick Sherry yesterday unveilled his top priorities for 2009, which includes a strong focus on short selling regulation, margin loans and credit rating agencies. Speaking at a media function in Sydney last night, the minister for superannuation ...

FTSE buys US pensions benchmark corp

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
FTSE Group has bought US based quant firm, Pensions Benchmark Corporation (PBC). All PBC's systems and databases integrated into FTSE, improving the global index provider's research capabilities. This integration will allow FTSE to create new indices ...

Instinet granted clearing membership

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
... Clearing Services has broken into the Australian clearing house market after gaining an ASX Settlement and Transfer Corporation membership. The membership has allowed the firm to clear and settle client trades locally for the past three months. Instinet ...

Good Bank Bad Bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
... true, the Obama administration maybe hoping that this bad bank will succeed the same way that the Resolution and Trust Corporation (RTC) -- established in 1989 to dispose of bad assets of failed US savings and loans institutions - did in resuscitating ...

Sucked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... buying longer-term Treasuries. Recently, the establishment of an "aggregator bank" akin to the Resolution and Trust Corporation (RTC) which was established in 1989 to dispose of bad assets of failed US savings and loans institutions. The Fed will hand ...

Gung Hay Fat Choy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
Gung Hay Fat Choy! The English version of Happy New Year has not worked for financial markets so far. Perhaps the Chinese one will. The web says that in Cantonese these words also mean 'may prosperity be with you.' Indeed, may prosperity be with us ...

VFMC restructures investment teams

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
The $36 billion Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) is combining its quantitative and equities team into a single entity as part of a sweeping reorganisation of the fund. VFMC chief executive and director Sydney Bone said the group is "reorganising ...