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Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... $1.355 on rumours that billionaire Solomon Lew and private equity groups are considering a takeover move on the troubled department store.

Digital currency continues to be monitored: RBA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... said it continues to monitor developments in the area. RBA head of payments policy Tony Richards, and payments policy department senior manager David Emery, told the inquiry "in the event that the use of a particular digital currency was to grow significantly ...

US schools should teach finlit

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
... to local school boards. SIFMA has also been highly critical of federal government initiatives, being overseen by the Department of Labor, to introduce fiduciary obligations on retirement advisers arguing it will result retirement fund members having ...

Out with the old in with the newer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
Uh-oh, what's the matter this time? The US Department of Commerce released bad US economic news overnight and Wall Street's down? What happened to the "bad news is good" mantra? Certainly the Fed's got its eyes on the latest update on what is considered ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... increased prospects of a hike in US interest rates weighed on Wall Street. Strong jobs growth data from the US Labor Department has raised expectations the Federal Reserve will soon lift interest rates. The US economy added 295,000 jobs in February ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... rates. At 0812 AEDT on Monday, the March share price index futures contract was down 64 points at 5,826. The Labor Department said the US economy added 295,000 jobs in February, pushing the unemployment rate down two tenths to 5.5 per cent, the lowest ...

US fiduciary reforms will rock pension funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... advice will rock the retirement fund sector. The proposal for a fiduciary advice standard is being pushed by the US Department of Labor (DOL) in its authority overseeing occupational retirement funds subject to the ERISA legislation. Lisa Bleier, managing ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2015
... cents to $2.42. Oil and gas producer Woodside Petroleum was down 29 cents at $35.01, and Santos lost 11 cents to $7.97. Department store Myer edged up 1.25 cents to $1.6675 a day after the resignation of chief executive Bernie Brookes prompted the share ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... Australia Bank had gained 41 cents to $38.41, ANZ was up 37 cents at $35.71 and Westpac was 35 cents higher at $38.35. Department store Myer had plunged 20.5 cents, or 11.05 per cent, to $1.65 after the shock departure of chief executive Bernie Brookes. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... sharply on worries about excess supplies. Morgan Stanley fell 1.5 per cent after announcing a settlement with the Justice Department to pay $US2.6 billion ($A3.34 billion) to settle a probe into its marketing of mortgage-backed securities. The investment ...