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'Leaner' HSBC hikes profits, bonuses

BEN PERRY, AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... major cost-cutting program that is set to continue at least for another two years. The group's share price slid in London trading however, on news that pre-tax profits missed market expectations. Net profit had stood at $US14.03 billion in 2012, when ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... market is on track for a seventh consecutive day of gains, despite the negative impact of several high profile companies trading ex-dividend. The market had defied a mixed lead from overseas to continue to push higher on Monday morning, CommSec market ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... results. Iluka Resources and Santos are due to announce full year results, while NAB is slated to release a first quarter trading update. In Australia, the market on Thursday managed a slight gain as weaker manufacturing numbers from China almost outweighed ...

Industry resists full portfolio disclosure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... information, ASFA said: "There is a risk that investment traders would become keen students of the patterns of securities trading of various superannuation funds." The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees also supported minimal levels of disclosure ...

It must have been love

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... January and the 10.0% increase in exports were true love after all. Bloomberg quoted Kim Eng Securities director of sales trading Andrew Sullivan saying that China's trade numbers were "like a double present for the market... Exports were good and we ...

Phones and tablets take over online broking

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... down from 132,000 in the 6 months to June 2013. Pressure on cost has also increased in the last months due to increased trading frequency and relatively low return expectations. This has given tailwind to low cost brokers and CMC Markets Stockbroking ...

Confusing versus credible

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... as long as the markets play along with the central banks' game of moving the goalposts. But judging from last night's trading activity - where the pound sterling and yields on 5- and 10-year gilts rose - market players appear to be starting to tire of ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... its annual general meeting scheduled. In Australia, the market on Wednesday finished higher for the fifth consecutive trading session as the resources sector led the gains. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 55.6 points, or 1.06 per cent, higher at 5,310.1. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... Jones chairman Peter Mason will leave the department store business in the wake of investor anger at controversial share trading by two of the company's directors. David Jones shares were down 0.5 cents, to $3.105. Meanwhile, US stocks edged higher the ...

Macquarie says market conditions improving

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC); Macquaries Securities; and Macquarie Capital - had experienced mixed trading conditions. Their combined contribution towards third quarter net profit was down on last year's corresponding period but up ...