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Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... Iron had dipped half a cent to 47.5 cents after a quarterly production report that showed a drop in costs and also prices. Coal miner Whitehaven was down 5.5 cents, or 4.2 per cent, at $1.245 after posting a half year loss of almost $78 million. Gold ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia will its latest figures on outstanding loans for December. In equites news, Whitehaven Coal releases its half year results and Newcrest issues it December quarter production report. In Australia, the share market ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... operator Aurizon climbed eight cents to $4.88 after it re-affirmed its full year rail volumes guidance despite a decline in coal and iron ore volumes in the December quarter. Engineering group Bradken was in a trading halt after it said a proposed $872 ...

Fossil fuel divestment gathers pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
... endowment fund from the investment sector. The Stanford University has, however, already divested from direct investment into coal producers. While Stanford University's trustees are not obligated to follow the request outlined in the letter and the ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
This year has been another busy one for the financial servives industry. FoFA remained on the radar and the Financial System Inquiry has the potential to change things in a big way. The Financial Standard team takes a look at the issues that made waves ...

Don't underestimate LNG boom: BNP Paribas

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... economy, investors should not underestimate the potential of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to fill the hole left by iron ore, coal, and other commodities, according to BNP Paribas head of fixed income in Australia James Hayes. Hayes said there is a tendency ...

Industry welcomes grandfathering deal

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
The financial services industry has welcomed the parliamentary agreement between the Coalition and Labor to fix the unintended consequences of scrapping grandfathering from the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation. The Financial Planning Association ...

Grandfathering set to become next advice battlefield

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
Advice associations will make grandfathering a priority in their conversations with government and opposition to address the sudden disallowance of the government's changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation. "We are quite confident ...

Industry furious at financial advice swap

AAP & ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
The financial services industry responded with ire after the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) laws were demolished in the Senate overnight. Labor, the Greens and four crossbenchers, including Palmer United Party's Jacqui Lambie, argued the Coalition's ...

One swallow says it's springtime for Germany

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
One month's tick up in a single index is all it took for euro area financial markets to go loco. Yes Virginia, they've gone loco over reports that economic sentiment in the region's locomotive - Germany -- rebounded (big time) in November after falling ...