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Liquidnet to launch first fixed income dark pool

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... liquidity." But new minimum capital requirements have limited investment managers' and dealers' access to liquidity. "This is the big thing that has recently changed in the fixed income market. Banks now can no longer hold the almighty position of being ...

TAL sees growth in profits and payouts

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
Financial results from TAL's Japanese parent, Dai-Ichi Life, reveal Australia's biggest life insurer has seen a 12% rise in underlying profit to $146.6 million in the year ended 31 March 2015. Premium income rose 21% to $2.2 billion and claims payouts ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... results translated into $US1.03 per share, a penny shy of analyst expectations. Many petroleum-linked stocks tumbled following a big retreat in oil prices, including Anadarko Petroleum (-1.7 per cent), Halliburton (-3.5 per cent) and Transocean (-5.9 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... confidence survey is due out. In Australia, the market on Monday closed more than one per cent lower, dragged back by the big banks and global miner BHP Billiton. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 76.3 points, or 1.33 per cent, at 5,659.2 points. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
The big banks and BHP Billiton have dragged the share market lower. Investors are being cautious around high yield stocks including the big four banks, Telstra and supermarket owners Wesfarmers and Woolworths, Bell Direct equities analyst Julia Lee ...

Falling AUD offsets dividend growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
Australia had the fastest dividend growth in Asia Pacific for the year to March 2015, but the falling Australian dollar made the increase modest relative to its counterparts in the region, the Henderson Global Dividend Index found. Australia made up ...

Damned lies and (actual) stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
"If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself." -Paul Joseph Goebbels It may not be as sinister as what Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister intended it to be but the Bank of Japan (BOJ) continues ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... after the National Australia Bank and Westpac both traded ex-dividend this week. Commonwealth Bank has led gains among the big four after Thursday's losses. CBA rose 71 cents, or 0.85%, to $84.33, ANZ lifted 17 cents, or 0.51%, to $33.19, while Westpac ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... flirted with a key level on the lower end of the recent trading range. "The problem is the last few times we got one of these big up days, there was no follow-through the next days," said Mace Blicksilver, director of Marblehead Asset Management. "Today ...

No downing the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
The portrait of Australian Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey's beaming self-congratulatory smile as he did the rounds of media interviews yesterday remains deeply stuck in my brain. Can't blame smokin' Joe, he might just get his autograph on a third Budget ...