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The fight over how to fight inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
... that Australia should relax its inflation targets are peculiar and misguided, argues Ken Henry, secretary of the Commonwealth Treasury. Henry's comments, in a speech he gave yesterday to a forum of Australian Business Economists in Sydney, takes the ...

Mohl joins CBA board

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2008
Ex-AMP chief executive Andrew Mohl has joined the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) as a director of the bank. Mohl was previously managing director and chief executive of AMP Limited from October 2002 until his retirement at the end of December ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2008
... Ltd and Adelaide Brighton Ltd hold their annual general meetings. Timbercorp Ltd releases first half results. Commonwealth Bank provides a market update, retiring ABC Learning Centres Ltd chair Sallyanne Atkinson speaks at Australian Institute of Company ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
... of minutes of trade," Ms Saly said. "We have seen a dip in Westpac shares." Other big lenders such as ANZ and Commonwealth Bank are also a bit weaker today. "There is not much talk surrounding those two but there is continued speculation that the NAB ...

St George and Westpac to merge

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
... network, bringing its planner numbers over the 1,000 mark, which would make them very similar in numbers to nab and Commonwealth Bank," said Rainmaker's associate director Andrew Keevers. While the proposed merger does not impact Australia's four pillar ...

Canadian RMBS not the answer: S&P

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
... government-backed agency, argues Standard & Poor's (S&P). Neither a nationalisation of Australia's market nor an adoption of a Commonwealth government-guaranteed body - such as the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation model outlined by the Australian ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
... contracts. National Australia Bank was up $1.75 to $33.99. ANZ rose 65 cents, or 2.87 per cent, to $23.65 and Commonwealth Bank added $1.59 cents, or 3.69 per cent, to $45.51. Softer demand for industrial metals weighed on the big miners, with BHP Billiton ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2008
... surged $1.64, or 5.29 per cent, to $32.64. At the same time, ANZ rose 83 cents, or 3.74 per cent, to $23.00, Commonwealth Bank lifted $1.00, or 2.29 per cent, to $44.70 and Westpac was 19 cents higher at $25.88. "Centro Properties is a stand out today ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2008
... per cent at the open on a negative US lead. "The turnaround story has been in the financial sector," he said. "Commonwealth Bank gave a presentation to the Macquarie conference in Sydney yesterday and outlined there that they saw no need for capital ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2008
... cents to $22.68, Westpac shedding 55 cents to $25.05, National Australia Bank dropping 57 cents to $30.85 and Commonwealth Bank falling 48 cents to $42.77.