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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
... market-pleasing annual profit results from Australia's biggest investment bank, Macquarie Group, boosted the financial sector. By 1200 AEST on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had gained 28.6 points, or 0.6 per cent, to 4,814.2, while the broader ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
... share market closed weaker as a lower-than-expected first half profit from ANZ Banking Group Ltd pulled back the financial sector and continued sovereign debt worries in Europe affected resources stocks. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed down 37.2 ...

Cooper wants collectables banned from SMSFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
... assessment objection. Alternatively, the panel said the administrative penalty approach could be modelled on the Financial Sector (Collection of Data) Act 2001 where trustees are issued with a penalty with the maximum amount set in legislation. Trustees ...

CalPERS fights BoA directors election

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
... The pension fund's Bank of America action is related to an engagement campaign begun this year with eight major financial sector firms over key corporate governance issues. CalPERS has more than US$1.1 billion invested in Bank of America stocks and fixed ...

Seek and thou shalt find

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
... Strauss-Kahn said that "there was broad agreement on the need for consensus and coordination in the reform of the global financial sector... the overriding goal was to prevent 'regulatory arbitrage'-the migration of banks to places where the burden of ...

India Equities puts cash to work

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
... million invested across 58 Indian equities. An investment report from the fund said its tilt to the country's financial sector had risen while the fund manager had cut its exposure to India's energy stocks in favour of targeting stocks in the materials ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
... Tuesday, the share market closed higher after a firm lead from US markets and stronger performance by the local financial sector. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index rose 10.7 points, or 0.22 per cent, to 4,925.8 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
... 1,192.13. Early trading was mixed, but the SEC announcement, and its refusal to rule out further charges across the financial sector, sent shares in some of Wall Streets biggest firms deep into negative territory. LONDON - European stock markets suffered ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
The Australian stock market was higher at noon, with healthy gains in the resources and financial sectors. At 1205 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 20.1 points, or 0.4 per cent, at 5,014.8 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had ...

US financials a big play: Bennelong SGI

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
The global financial sector may be a shadow of its former self after the GFC but it is still a $9.1 trillion (US$8.5 trillion) market full of stocks ripe for the plucking, said fund manager Bennelong SGI Global Equities. Visiting Australia this month ...