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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... to $16.01 and National Australia Bank gained 69 cents to $19.40. BHP Billiton, the largest company on the Australian Securities Exchange, added 15 cents, or 0.5 per cent, to $30.15. Rival Rio Tinto gained 57 cents, or 1.28 per cent, to $45.02. In the ...

ETCs open on ASX

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
ETF Securities' suite of exchange traded commodities (ETCs) including platinum, silver and palladium can now be traded on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The firm announced its ETC range in November last year, includes ETFS Physical Platinum ...

FPA heads to eye of Storm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... victims of Storm Financial and reiterate the FPA's stance on professional conduct breaches. The role of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) would also be highlighted to the public. "At ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was 64 points lower at 3,429. In economic news on Monday, the TD Securities/Melbourne Institute Inflation Gauge for January, the Australia Bureau of Statistics house price indices data for the December ...

Profits down for Count

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... for last year's second half results, putting its NPBT to $14.6 million. According to a statement on the Australian Securities Exchange, Count said it expects its net profit before tax to sit at $14.6 million, down 12 per cent on the corresponding period. ...

BNP Paribas upgrades client support

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
BNP Paribas Securities Services and New South Wales Treasury Corporation have teamed up to launch My Queries, a client support system developed by BNP Paribas, in Australia. My Queries is a web based automated query management and client support system ...

Worst of the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... to 50 billion (US$71.5 billion) in assets, including high quality corporate bonds and commercial paper, asset-backed securities and syndicated loans. These will be funded by the sale of UK gilts. And just like the Fed and the BoJ, it would soon find ...

Instinet granted clearing membership

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
... Instinet gained a full remote ASX membership in late 2007 which allowed the firm to provide direct execution of ASX listed securities to all the firm's clients. In February last year Instinet applied to launch its alternative trading platform, Chi-X ...

Good Bank Bad Bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
... that is, to continue expanding its balance sheet. 'The Committee also is prepared to purchase longer-term Treasury securities if evolving circumstances indicate that such transactions would be particularly effective in improving conditions in private ...

FIIG hires associate director

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
FIIG Securities Limited has appointed Kieran Quaine as associate director based at the firm's Sydney office. The appointment follows the increasing demand for fixed income services provided by FIIG's business. Quaine has nearly 20 years experience in ...