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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... watch on the Australian stock exchange on Monday Sept 12: MTS - METCASH LTD - down three cents at $4.19 The competition watchdog says it will closely monitor any attempt by Coles or Woolworths to buy Franklins stores and block any sales that lessen competition. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... of its structural separation, required as part of the rollout of the national broadband network, with the competition watchdog for approval. Its shares were up one cent at $3.00. National turnover was 922.5 million shares, worth $1.64 billion, with 663 ...

ASIC jobs cut as responsibilities rise

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... part of 87 redundancies with a further 68 to go this financial year as part of a $10 million budget cut to the corporate watchdog, dependant on a funding review. ASIC's budget has fallen to $350 million for the 2011-12 financial year, subject to a funding ...

ASIC warns it will act on rogue ETF pricing

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... exchange-traded fund prices interfere with market integrity by being too removed from the underlying index. The trading watchdog flagged more than 23,000 general trading alerts during real-time surveillance of Australian Stock Exchange in the first six ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... "Part of the slump was due to automatic stop-loss trades, an official for the regulator said by telephone today. The watchdog hasn't ruled out market manipulation." That may be. But automatic stop-loss trades would only be triggered if stocks fell by ...

Bans hit bad planners: ASIC

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... representative for Bridges Financial Services in 2007. The firm soon became suspicious and reported him to the corporate watchdog. ASIC banned Brown from providing financial services for life in December 2009 after investigating. Brown appeared on Tuesday ...

Budget 2011: "Benign" Budget a relief for finance sector

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... nearly $80 million to regulators including the tax office, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and corporate watchdog ASIC to implement aspects of the Stronger Super reforms. The reforms include a new administrative penalty framework, registration ...

ASX fines broker for bad behaviour

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... breaches of the rules made before August 1, 2010. Offences committed after this date are being dealt with by corporate watchdog ASIC.

ASIC bans "deceptive" planner for five years

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
Corporate watchdog ASIC has banned a financial planner for five years after he tricked his clients with shonky advice which included arranging margin loans for them, it said today. ASIC said Ian John Weaver of Clear Island Waters, Queensland, broke ...

ASIC silent on possible research probe

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... positive reports on fraud funds Trio Capital and Astarra are being investigated. But industry insiders say the corporate watchdog is conducting a high-level investigation into both research firms and auditors who reported on super fund Trio and its associated ...