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Perth stockbroker gets ban for life

ASIC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... Perth-based stockbrokers Hogan and Partners Stockbrokers Pty Ltd (Hogan's). Kur provided advice in relation to options trading and dealing in options trading for a number of overseas based clients. ASIC found that Kur engaged in misleading or deceptive ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
... in claims for jobless benefits. Stocks edged higher on Thursday after Alcoa reported a smaller-than-expected loss after trading closed on Wednesday, kicking off the second-quarter earnings season. Investors were encouraged also by a report from the Labor ...

Private investors on property buying spree

CBRE RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
... the buyers were private investors and another 14 per cent from syndicators. "We've never seen private interests dominate trading activity like this before," said Kevin Stanley, CBRE executive director, research and consulting. He pointed out that the ...

Can't swing it both ways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
... margins. And talking about expectations, the mere shift in outlook to 'less good' company earnings provides a good contrarian trading opportunity. Why? Because lowered profit expectations increases the likelihood for greater positive surprises. Now for ...

Experts pick top stocks and sectors

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... term issues are going to be China and India," he said. "Also, the fact that we're going to be getting closer to carbon trading and the impact of the environment from the economy. These issues need to be front-of-mind for financial planners." Given this ...

Desktop Broker signs on 17 clients

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
Direct equities trading platform Desktop Broker has recruited 17 dealer groups to use its services since February this year - partly driven by the firm's "10 business days or less" payment system. Desktop Broker, which has links with ASX-listed Bell ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... broad-market index edged up 2.3 points, 0.26 per cent, to settle at 898.72. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets slid in gloomy trading as investors reeled from grim US jobs data and looked ahead to a wave of company earnings results. London's FTSE 100 ...

Focus on quality: T. Rowe Price

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... Gensler, whose identical twin brother Gary Gensler was handpicked by Barack Obama as chair of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), said he would rather focus on stocks that will do well "in two to three years' time", not just during the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... Billiton were down one dollar to $33.30 while other miners also were weaker. Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto was in a trading halt as its bank underwriters offload shares that were not taken up under its Australian equity raising. "Rio Tinto hasn't ...

No fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... expectations for a rise to 9.6 per cent or that this was the smallest increase in nine months. The fact that this was the slowest trading day of 2009 with only 625 million shares changing hands came only as an afterthought - buried in paragraph six or ...