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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... stockpiles back up and shipping may be increasing." By 1202 AEDT, BHP Billiton, the largest company on the Australian Securities Exchange, gained 31 cents to $31.93, while rival Rio Tinto lost 61 cents to $46.79. Fortescue metals added nine cents, or ...

Macquarie targets funds mgmt acquisitions

JOHN KAVANAGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
... $73 billion in assets under management, down from $78.6 billion in March last year. The big falls were in real estate securities, down from $3 to $1.6 billion and listed equities, down from $9.4 to $7 billion. The group's strength is in fixed income ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
... Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was 22 points lower at 3374 on a volume of 14,197 contracts. Aequs Securities institutional dealer Ric Klusman said recent institutional placements by Suncorp, Qantas, Westfield and Newcrest mining ...

ASIC blocks $2m Storm bonus

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has obtained a court order preventing a payment of $2 million from Storm Financial to a bank account in which is held by Emmanuel and Julie Cassimatis. The sum was transferred from a Storm ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
The Australian market has received a weak lead from Wall Street securities and with oil trading down, although precious and base metals were higher. But at 0807 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was 15 points higher at ...

Double Bay brokers banned

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) banned Double Bay - based Phillip Dryer and Colin Littlemore from providing financial services for four years after the regulator found they were operating without a licence. The regulator ...

IOOF adds govt guarantee option

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... Protected Cash Trust, available across superannuation and investment accounts, invests in short term, interest bearing securities that are guaranteed by the government. The Australian government initially guaranteed all deposits but was later revised ...

Industry unites for super message

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... long term investment. The Investment & Financial Services Association (IFSA), Industry Super Network (ISN), Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Association of Financial Advisors (AFA), Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) are members ...

Damned if you do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... merrier Christmas than their global peers? Similarly, the government's $8 billion guarantee to fund mortgage-backed securities and its $6.2 billion assistance to the car industry have been criticised. Why the commercial property? Why the car industry? ...

More bombshells before the recovery

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... Speaking at the Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum in Sydney, Craig James, chief equities economist at Commonwealth Securities, said that he predicts the index to dive another 13 per cent to hit 3,000 this year. But he also predicts that the index ...