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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
The Australian share market has received positive but indifferent leads from Wall Street leading into opening this morning, although the high-tech Nasdaq index was up more than one per cent. In London, base metals were down. There was little clue from ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
... $1.00 to $25.10, ANZ gained $1.16 to $24.14, NAB found $2.02 to $31.13. St George Bank also announced a benefit from the Visa IPO of $75 million before tax, and confirmed its 2008 guidance of ten per cent growth in earnings per share. By 1214 AEDT, St ...

Sentiment sinks on floats

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2008
... sharemarket floats, the number of business listings this year could be half the bumper year of 2007. Raising $8.9 billion in 2007, IPO activity soared 28 per cent to 91 listings. Ironically, despite being in the eye of the credit squeeze, around a quarter ...

AFS ready for IPO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
Australian Financial Services Group (AFS) has flagged plans to list on the stock exchange after meeting its business and profit objectives last year. "Our energies over the past four years have been devoted to consolidating AFS' position in the marketplace ...

G'day Vietnam

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2008
... year. VECL aims to grow its assets to more than $100 million and return more than a 20 per cent yield by investing in pre-IPO blue chip Vietnamese investments across property, equity, infrastructure, health and finance. The portfolio consists of eight ...

India dominates global IPO

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2008
... the developed world during January but it hasn't frightened companies that believe in its upside, judging on latest global IPO data. The Indian market wide NIFTY index from the Indian Stock Exchange is down 15 per cent between 1 January and 15 February ...

IPOs hit by market uncertainty

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
Stock market jitters and uncertainty in credit market, interest rates and inflation are all coming together to stall IPO activity, according to a survey just released by Deloitte. Steve Woosnam, Deloitte corporate finance partner, said while IPO seem ...

JPMorgan Chase launches IPO STRATAS

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
JPMorgan Chase has developed IPO Target Redemption Strategic Asset Securities (IPO STRATAS), a structured product based on an index that returned seven times more than the S&P 500 in the past five years. IPO STRATAS was created with Citibank and is ...

China to lead IPOs again in 2008

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
... sector accounting for 40 per cent of the activity. The Thomson report noted that the financials sector, which lead Chinese IPO proceeds raised since 2005, was now ranking only at number three being expected to drive just 15 per cent of new volume. The ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2007
... Banking Corporation Ltd holds its annual general meeting and Green Invest Ltd launches a $5 million initial public offering (IPO). Three Perth-based companies list on the Australian stock exchange today - Northern Iron Ltd (12.00pm AEDT), Syndicated ...