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Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
... Primary Health Care jumped 10 cents to $5.13, CSL surged $1.44 to $64.64 and Cochlear gained $1.04 to $73.67. The four major banks also opened higher. Commonwealth Bank leapt 71 cents to $72.80, after it said its third quarter profits were up 12 per ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
The Australian market has opened flat as gains for defensive stock offset losses for Westpac and Macquarie banks. IG market strategist Evan Lucas said Westpac and Macquarie were dragging down the market as both went ex-dividend. "It's a bit of a weak ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
The Australian market has opened flat as gains for defensive stock offset losses for Westpac and Macquarie banks. IG market strategist Evan Lucas said Westpac and Macquarie were dragging down the market as both went ex-dividend. "It's a bit of a weak ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013
... said the Australian market had opened higher due to a strong start from the financial sector after Westpac and Macquarie banks went ex-dividend. "With Westpac now the second largest listing on the ASX, the possible pick-up in the share price today, as ...

First Super to take action over JPM governance concerns

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013
... very strong argument for splitting the roles of CEO and chairman, failing to do so constitutes a serious inadequacy in the banks governance, and the risks that poses for investors are gratuitous and unacceptable," First Super investment committee chair ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013
... meeting scheduled in Port Moresby. In Australia, the market on Thursday closed flat, held back by weakness among the major banks and expectations of a pause on interest rate cuts following the release of encouraging jobs figures. The unemployment rate ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2013
... at $32.92. Lonsec senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said NAB's results were not as good as those of the other major banks. "Certainly, the international (market) moves were very positive last night, so you would have thought we would have jumped ...

NAB Wealth profits stable

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2013
... acquisition." He added that a strategic review of its ailing British operations, which include the Yorkshire and Clydesdale banks, was ahead of schedule.

A long two-month wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
... the most of all stocks on the S&P/ASX200 on Friday, having jumped 10.65 per cent, or $4.14, to $43.02. Of the other retail banks, ANZ had risen 23 cents to $31.73, CBA climbed 88 cents to $73.38 and NAB was 40 cents firmer at $34.24. The local market ...