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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
... benchmark Hang Seng Index was down 48.31 points at 20,763.05. Chinese shares fell 1.23 per cent, led by property developers and banks, after the central bank move at the weekend, dealers said. The Shanghai Composite Index, which covers both A and B shares ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... on a volume of 12,685 contracts. Financial stocks were higher but had fallen from their opening points. Among the major banks, Westpac was up six cents at $27.62, Commonwealth Bank was up eight cents at $59.01, ANZ had gained six cents to $24.80 and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... TOKYO - The Japanese stock market was closed on Monday. HONG KONG - Hong Kong shares closed lower on Monday as mainland banks and property firms were hit by news that Beijing had increased the amount of money lenders are required to hold in reserve. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
... tax changes on resources companies has kept the Australian share market in negative territory at noon. But strength among banks and financial stocks have prevented sharper falls. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 29.8 points, or 0.62 ...

Ord Minnett raises $600 million

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
... already hit the ground running - launching the firm's term deposit platform. "A lot of our clients are dealing with private banks and those banks are directing them to their term deposits," he said. "We were able to build a platform and service that ...

Tech aids capital markets

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
... trends that are predicted to change monitoring and surveillance of capital markets. The firm believes regulators will require banks to implement stronger pre-trade risk mechanisms to lower the risk of 'fat finger' trades and quantitative trading platforms ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
... full year profit by 21 per cent, benefitting from improved market conditions and increased diversification. Among the major banks, Westpac was up 35 cents at $27.35, ANZ climbed five cents to $24.25, National Australia Bank rose 22 cents to $28.23, and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
... recovery in Asia and Australia. Its shares were down 45 cents, or 1.81 per cent, at $24.40. Among the other three major banks, Commonwealth Bank gave up 45 cents to $57.28, Westpac dropped 27 cents to $26.87, and National Australia Bank was down 43 cents ...

Contagion has already happened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
... exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate for an extended period." There you go. The rising profits reported by banks and financial institutions would continue. Why? They could borrow money at 0.25 per cent or cheaper from the Fed, turn around ...

Commissions by another name

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... generally used by small financial planning businesses, which rely on this type of income stream to compete with the major banks and superannuation funds." Hartsuyker also rejected the core tenant of Bowen's reforms being that investors should only be ...