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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
... cent, higher at 1,515.98. The NASDAQ Composite index gained 32.61 points, or 1.04 per cent, at 3,162.26. The positive trading came after durable goods orders for January sank by 5.2 per cent because of a big drop in aircraft orders. However, excluding ...

More steam from NY rally: Melb Inst

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
... confidence index was near its current level was in early 2011, which is also the last period when the S&P/ASX 200 was trading above 5000 points. The survey shows that investors are looking to buy shares that have already risen across a broad band of ...

ASIC speeds up misconduct probe

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
... Greg Yanco added that taskforces have been established to consider issues relating to dark liquidity and high-frequency trading (HFT). "The work undertaken by these taskforces, as we foreshadowed in our last report, buttressed our surveillance and policy ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
... per cent) to 1,496.94, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index jumped 13.40 (0.43 per cent) to 3,129.65. The buoyant trading came after reports showed surprisingly robust new home sales and consumer confidence. Stocks were also aided by congressional ...

Perpetual shares comeback

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... changes made at the company draws closer. This morning Perpetual shares cost $40.89, just shy of a 100% improvement after trading at $21.00 in October 2012. In June last year Perpetual, which will unveil its half-year results on Thursday, announced a ...

SMSFs drive ASX growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... familiar with, we are talking about an industry that has been working since the 1920s or 30s with some such as Argo and AFIC trading for over 50 years," Morgan said.

IOOF posts $33.2m profit

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... our flagship platforms," said Kelaher. IOOF declared a 19.5 cents fully-franked interim dividend. Shares in IOOF were trading at $8.30 this morning, after opening at $8.13.

ASX volatility index moves to live pricing

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... market with intra-day volatility information and importantly, enables ASX to create derivative products for hedging and trading the volatility asset class. Popularly referred to as 'the fear index', the new real-time S&P/ASX 200 VIX will replace the ...

Takeover to drive $8m in savings

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... confident this represents a good deal for both companies," Equity Trustees said. Equity Trustees' shares were up this morning, trading at $17.0 after opening at $16.8. Shares in The Trust Company were also trading slightly higher, rising from $5.26 to ...

EU-wide ban on CDS pointless

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
... EU-wide ban on naked CDS positions is unlikely to achieve its aims. Lara Cathcart, senior lecturer at Imperial College, said trading activity alone doesn't have a meaningful impact on sovereign default risk, as it doesn't cause the cost of borrowing ...