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India to ban food futures

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
... more urbanised the world becomes the more meat we eat and the more grain fed beef cattle we need, with the irony that poor third world food consumers are being pushed aside in favour of hungry beef cattle. Oil prices are a food price problem too because ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
... reduction in stamp duty. In equities, APN News & Media holds its annual general meeting, while Harvey Norman Holdings releases third quarter sales results and St George Bank reveals interim results. Yesterday, the Australian stock market closed higher ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2008
... shares in Macarthur Coal were down 14 cents, or 0.79 per cent $17.61, after it said it remains in talks with an unidentified third party about a possible takeover. Shares in Macarthur rose on Friday on the back of market speculation that Xstrata Coal ...

ING buys Citistreet for $960m

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2008
... keeping and administrative services to more than 16,000 plans across Australia and the US. This purchase makes ING Group the third largest defined contribution business in the US based on assets under management and assets under administration. "This ...

Finland the most low risk

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2008
... over-regulation due to the delayed effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the report says. Hong Kong ranked second, Singapore third, while Sweden and Australia snagged fourth and fifth positions respectively.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
... Place'. Santos Ltd and Oil Search Ltd hold their annual general meetings. Resmed Inc and Telecom New Zealand release their third quarter results. The Australian share market closed flat on lower trading volumes after a weak lead from Wall Street and ...

BNY Mellon to double corp trust share

... facility, once finished, will be able to handle as much as 1.5 million packets. Last year, BNYTA acted on more than one-third of the country's domestic securitisation deals and approximately 80 per cent of the cross-border securitisation transactions ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2008
... first half profit, as demand for credit from business and retail customers remained buoyant. Shares of Westpac, Australia's third largest bank, declined two cents to $24.47. Mr McPherson said he was surprised given Westpac's better-than-expected profit ...

NAB buys stake in Pengana

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2008
National Australia Bank's (NAB) direct investment management business, nabInvest, has purchased roughly one third of funds management firm Pengana Capital. This minority stake represents nabInvest's second investment. The first, which they signed last ...

Private wealth managers bank on CRM

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2008
... the data can be compared and adjudicated, and which can be easily updated to accommodate changing market conditions." A third but integral component of PWM needs is defining and supporting complex relationships. "A high net worth investor might adopt ...