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This Week's Market Movers (21-25 July 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
... Germany's Ifo business climate indicator, purchasing managers indexes for France, Germany, and the Eurozone, Italian and French business confidence indicators, and Eurozone money supply. Purchasing Managers Indexes (PMI) for the Eurozone as a whole and ...

Plan Protect buys boutique firm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
AXA financial planning representative, Plan Protect purchased Sydney CBD based financial planning practice, Bearsden Holdings, boosting its funds under advice to more than $200 million. Bearsden Holdings comprises of two financial planners including ...

CAAM eyes retail

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
... skills are sought out," said Borysiewicz. Borysiewicz confidently pegs CAAM Australia to be a major growth hub for the French banking stalwart. "A couple of years back, Credit Agricole pondered where further growth can come from, and they identified ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
... closed for a public holiday. On Wednesday the DAX index ended at 6,948.82 points, up 63.48 or 0.92 percent. PARIS - The French stock markets were closed for a public holiday. On Wednesday the CAC-40 index closed at 4,996.54 points, up 19.44 or 0.39 percent. ...

ASF appoints exec director

... as executive director. Prior to his appointment, Medcraft was the managing director and global head of securitisation at French banking giant SociA(C)tA(C) GA(C)nA(C)rale in New York. He was also chairman of the American Securitization Forum for the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
... September 2001 terrorist attacks in the US, on fears of a US recession. The German exchange lost 7.16 per cent and while French stocks fell 6.83 per cent. At home, Rio Tinto was down $9.79, or 8.57 per cent, to $104.46 and BHP Billiton had fallen $1.49 ...

ANZ bank looks to India

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2007
... with Wells Fargos? How do our ATMs compare with Spain's Santander's?" Smith said. "You can practically cook dinner with a French ATM, they sell insurance, approve mortgages, it's quite amazing." He said India had developed world class businesses in knowledge ...

Tobacco shares up in smoke

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2007
... was criticised by local non-government organisations (NGOs) for its $18.4 million worth of shareholdings in Total S.A., a French oil company with operations in Burma.

Automate at ILOG speed

The world will never run out of rules but French software company ILOG has come up with ways to help mortgage brokers, insurers and stockbrokers keep on top of each and every one of them. Visiting Sydney mid this year, ILOG's founding chief executive ...

NZ Super Fund defends Myanmar investment

... Superannuation Fund has come under fire from local non-government organisations (NGOs) for its shareholdings in Total S.A., a French oil company with operations in Myanmar. But the guardians of New Zealand superannuation chief executive officer, Adrian ...