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US Treasury to announce regulatory overhaul

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... will today formally announce its plan to merge the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and extend the powers of the Federal Reserve by allowing them to send in what could be called SWAT teams into any ...

ASIC investigates Opes Prime

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
... investigate any breaches of the Corporations Act by the firm. The regulator confirmed Opes Prime had been suspended as a trading, settlement and clearing participant of the ASX yesterday evening. According to a Deloitte statement, Opes Primes directors ...

Integrity appoints head of equity trading

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
Integrity Investment Management Australia has appointed Janet Montagu as head of equity trading. Montagu will work with Karen Thompson on trading and implementation for client portfolios. She will bring eight years of experience gained at UBS to the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
... as metal prices rose. The FTSE 100 was 57.1 points higher at 5,717.5 after touching a high of 5,735.0 during a choppy trading session. FRANKFURT - The DAX index ended at 6,578.06 points, up 88.8 or 1.37 per cent. PARIS - The CAC-40 index closed at 4,719.53 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2008
... 158.28 or 3.49 per cent. TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei average rose 2.1 per cent as Canon and other exporters climbed with the yen trading well, off a near 13-year high posted last week against the dollar, easing concerns about the outlook for exporters. The ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
Australian stocks were 2.8 per cent lower at noon on a shortened trading day as big falls in the price of oil and gold and weaker industrial metal prices hammered resources stocks. The financials sector also was weaker after speculation that top-three ...

Superfund Group pans for Australian gold

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
... traditional assets in favour of more diversified alternative classes," said Christian Baha, Superfund founder and owner. Trading under the SuperAlphaFund Financial banner, the Superfund Group will distribute its Superfund Strategy A and Superfund Gold ...

Climate change rhetoric unsustainable

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
... introduction of green bags and media campaigns. Meanwhile concerns are growing that the introduction of the Australian Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) in 2010 will add to energy costs. Given that the whole point of an ETS is to increase energy prices ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
... 5,289.1, while the broader All Ordinaries added 185.4 points, or 3.59 per cent, to 5,349.2. The ASX closes for normal trading for the Easter weekend at 1410 AEDT. NEW YORK - US stocks ended lower on Wednesday, sending Wall Street to its biggest one-day ...

Austock teams with Cantor

... responding to media reports that it has been contacted by ASIC regarding the current round of short-selling and alleged insider trading. "Austock [today] confirmed that in fact no such correspondence has been received, and we are not aware of any reason ...