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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... stocks made gains, with BHP Billiton up 33 cents to $43.80 and Rio Tinto adding 73 cents to $84.42. By comparison, major banks lost ground, with Commonwealth Bank down 42 cents to $49.48, and Westpac Banking Corporation losing 14 cents to $21.79.

When Irish eyes are frowning

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... again in recent trading sessions. Markets are now convinced that the Irish government doesn't have the capacity to bail its banks out, while calls from German officials for investors to share some of the burden that is currently being borne by its taxpayers ...

Median Australian shares fund down: Mercer

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... to industrial stocks which has helped performance over the year." "Looking at financials and being underweight with the banks over the last year has also helped," said Trusler. Over all, the S&P/ASX300 rose 1.8 per cent to finish up 5.6 per cent over ...

Fin services execs earn big bucks

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... Financial Review's latest executive salary review. Alongside the usual suspects - including chief executives of the big 4 banks - there are some surprisingly high entries from the industry. Challenger Financial Services is one company to feature prominently ...

Fees on SG super should be cost-recovery: IPA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... super savings than direct fund fees. Davidson's comments are strikingly similar to the Coalition's and Greens' call for banks to enter a social contract with the nation. "While some compulsion might be socially beneficial, it should only be economically ...

Whac-a-mole 2.0

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... Dublin would be forced to accept a rescue package - reportedly totalling up to a,-100 billion ($135 billion) - to salvage its banks and public finances. The whole of Europe has a deep vested interest in seeing that no nation is left behind. Hey, and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average ended 0.08 per cent higher, while the broader S&P 500 index lost 0.12 per cent. The banks mainly were higher at noon. ANZ was leading the way, after reports the bank failed to win control of South Korea's fifth-largest ...

Hunter Hall regains ground

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... stocks they bought in the past 18 months, including stakes in a Japanese karaoke company Daiichikosho, Indian public sector banks and Japanese media firm Proto Corporation. "Proto is probably one of the best companies we have ever had in our portfolios," ...

ANZ invests more in BoT

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... ANZ is the second largest shareholder in BoT after the Tianjin Government. "As we deepen the cooperation between the two banks with this investment, ANZ will continue to support BoT in developing a Trade and Markets business and our banks will establish ...

Recycled fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... the highest inflation rate in China since September 2008. Be afraid... the Peoples Bank of China has already lifted its banks reserve requirement by 50 basis points to 17.5 per cent from 17 per cent last week. Be very, very afraid... Beijing and its ...