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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
... key interest rates that affect transactions around the world. Chief among the banks fined were Germany's Deutsche Bank, France's Societe Generale and Britain's state-rescued Royal Bank of Scotland. The euro eased to $US1.3555 from $US1.3589 late in New ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2013
... markets mostly fell, making a downbeat start to the week with investors put off by shrinking manufacturing activity in France and Spain. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index slid 0.70 per cent to 6,604.21 points in Monday afternoon deals, Frankfurt's DAX ...

Right direction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2013

I spy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2013
... documents leaked by US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA spied on Brazil, Mexico, France, Germany and Spain (National Post). News? That's no news? Everybody knows it. News would be if the NSA didn't or the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013
... bank's stimulus policy in place. Investors brushed aside news that economic activity slowed in Germany and contracted in France in the third quarter, with gains in the US constrained by disappointing earnings. Europe's main stock markets closed higher ...

Move the goalpost Mark

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2013
... is expected to have one of the highest growth rates among advanced economies. It will grow faster than Germany, Japan, France and Canada next year, according to growth estimates from each country's central bank". I can't blame Mark Carney for glowing...and ...

Transaction-based fees hurt private banking clients

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2013
Credit Suisse's Asia Pacific head of private banking Francesco de Ferrari has criticised the industry's commonplace transaction-based fee structures for not being in clients' best interests. He told Financial Standard that charging clients when they ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2013
... previous two months added another 60,000 jobs. LONDON - European shares ended mixed after a rollercoaster session marked by France's credit downgrade and US jobs data. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index climbed 0.17 per cent to close at 6,708.42 points ...

ACSA appoints new chair

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
... Braga thanked the incumbent chair and managing director of BNP Paribas Security Services Pierre Jond, who is returning to France. "Over the past two years, Pierre has broadened the role of ACSA as a representative body for custodians and strengthened ...

OMTs - one year on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... advance and the highest reading in more than two years -- from 50.5 in July.A And it was broad-based.A Indeed, for apart from France and Greece, the output indices in respective eurozone member states have all broken above the 50 expansion/contraction ...