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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
... expected expenditure for the March quarter. Reserve Bank of Australia deputy governor Ric Battellino addresses the annual Securities and Derivatives Industry Association Conference. The Housing Industry Association will release its state and national ...

CAAM eyes credit and currency

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... global fixed income strategy's emphasis from specific country exposure to a sector based strategy that targets credit securities and currency plays. CAAM Global Bond fund's recently released Lonsec report said the firm expects returns over the next three ...

ESSSuper closes Cash Plus option

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... reduce the ability to trade these financial instruments - this has resulted in lower than expected returns on these securities," said ESSSuper. The end result is the closure of the option, as the fund now considers the pure cash strategy will "better ...

Perpetual proposes caps on exec and board pay

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... to play a leading role in a number of bank re-purchase agreement programs and government-supported mortgage backed securities issuances," said Savage. But while the highlight for the group's shareholders is the proposed dividend re-investment plan, those ...

Dark liquidity on UBS tap

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
UBS Securities Australia has unveilled a new non-displayed internal crossing pool accessible to all Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) stocks as part of the UBS Price Improvement Network (UBS PIN). UBS PIN now provides clients with access to off-exchange ...

We've left bottom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... Standard & Poor's gauged that the market is strong enough to weather its UK downgrade warning and why the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) moved forward its lifting of the short-selling ban on financials it instituted eight months ...

Mixed reaction on shorting ban lift

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... have been mixed towards ASIC's announcement today that it had lifted the ban on covered short selling of financial securities. ASIC today lifted the ban which was first put in place on 21 September last year, following extreme market volatility. ASIC ...

PGI fund placed on FirstChoice

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
Principal Global Investors' flagship property securities fund has been included in Colonial First State's platform, FirstChoice. Grant Forster, chief executive for Principal Global Investors Australian said the Principal Property Securities Fund has ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
... share price index contract was 26 points lower at 3,808 on volume of 11,239 contracts. Senior client adviser at Austock Securities, Michael Heffernan, said the fall was due to mixed commodity prices and a weak lead from Wall Street. "The materials sector ...

Acronyms pull down USD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
... ammunition worth about US124 billion. And in addition to these, the US Federal Reserve would continue to accept new forms of securities as collateral for its Term Asset-backed Lending Facility (TALF). However, the flipside of all these billion dollars ...