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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013
... Australia, the market on Tuesday fell as investors took profits after the recent record highs reached by three of the big four banks. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 25.9 points, or 0.48 per cent, to 5,415.5 points. The broader All Ordinaries ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2013
... previous year. ANZ's shares are flying, up 69, or 2.1 per cent, to $33.93. It has also set the bar high for the two other major banks reporting in the coming days. National Australia Bank was up 19 cents at $36.87 in anticipation of a decent result when ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2013
... scheduled to speak at an AMCHAM event in Sydney. In Australia, the market on Monday closed at a five-year high as the major banks lifted ahead of the release of NAB and ANZ results. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 55.1 points, or 1.02 per cent, higher ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
... market strategist Stan Shamu told AAP. The broad-based S&P 500 increased 7.70 (0.44 per cent) to 1,759.77. Locally, the major banks, which represent four of the six largest stocks on the market, are all making solid gains as traders position themselves ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
... cents to $37.61, Rio Tinto lifted 27 cents to $64.12 while Fortescue Metals Group rose three cents to $5.33. Of the big banks, Westpac gained 15 cents to $34.33, ANZ was up 19 cents to $32.56, Commonwealth Bank added 25 cents to $75.83 and National Australia ...

US stimulus having no direct impact

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
... money into the system but the rates of money growth have been quite modest and bank credit has actually tailed off a little. Banks are sitting on $2 trillion in cash and not lending it out." In spite of a seemingly gigantic $85 billion a month asset ...

Rational exuberance?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
... any creaking sound to singing, "I am strong, I am invincible...", no it's not because "I am woman" but because the central banks' got our backs. Just how bullish is the market? According to the American Association of Individual Investors' (AAII) latest ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
... annual general meetings scheduled. In Australia, the market on Thursday finished higher, driven by strong gains among the big banks. The nation's biggest bank, Commonwealth, surged to a record high as the bank reporting season approaches. The benchmark ...

Congress dysfunction hits US bond confidence

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
... dysfunction distracted from an otherwise improving attitude to the US' gradually narrowing budget deficits and healthier banks. Indonesia's Willingness to Pay score meanwhile rose albeit from a low base as Jakarta's reformist governor Joko Widodo jumped ...

Investment industry urged to put society first

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
A major power shift from intermediaries such as fund managers and investment banks to fiduciaries including Australian superannuation funds is gathering pace in the global financial services sector, according to the CFA Institute's Asia Pacific managing ...