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Buy-back boom driven by loose Fed policy

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... used debt for stock buybacks and dividends, thereby rewarding equity-holders at the expense of bondholders. "There is nothing wrong with stock buybacks and dividends per se, and indeed they can contribute to a very sensible corporate capital allocation ...

J.P.Morgan makes Australian appointment amid global restructure

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... years. When asked for comment on the global redundancies, a J.P.Morgan spokesperson told Financial Standard : "There is nothing further that we can say locally." J.P.Morgan confirmed that it has about 1,200 employees in Australia and New Zealand. Speaking ...

Uncertainty over JPM job cuts in Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... aiming to cut 5,000 jobs globally, but it has not confirmed whether the move will impact its Australian division. "There is nothing further that we can say locally," a JPM spokesperson told Financial Standard, when asked to comment on information published ...

Shares lower at lunch time

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... petered away very quickly," Phillip Capital senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said. He said there appeared to be nothing in particular to drive the market downwards at the moment except that investors seemed to have a contrary attitude and the ...

Running on neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
Move on people, nothing to see here today. Go away and enjoy a long lunch or plant a tree. This applies to equity markets seeking direction from overnight activity on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial index weaved and bobbed through intra-day trade ...

NAB upgrades advice compensation program

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... and Labor Senator Sam Dastyari told NAB chief executive: "Mr Thorburn, you throw around the word 'independent'. There is nothing independent about the process you have established." He also questioned the fact that NAB has not put in place a comprehensive ...

Economist asleep over budget investment market impact

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... on confidence as seen in 2014. He said over time Australia will still see fiscal contraction in the economy and there's nothing in the budget to suggest the Reserve Bank will jack up interest rates anytime soon and there is a risk they might fall again. ...

Dear mom, all's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... for David's mom, good news for the FTSE. The FTSE-100 jumped 2.5% as pre-election jitters of a hung parliament - where nothing gets done - as indicated by exit polls proved grossly wrong. The Conservative Party headed by incumbent PM Cameron, instead ...

Bond bears out of hibernation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... be the same factor that would keep the Fed lift-off at bay for a while longer. And then, there's the ECB and the BOJ - nothing's stopping them from printing more and ensuring that yields stay low for longer. This, or all the money printing they have ...

May cut, may not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... Looking at the Australian economic indicators that have been released since the Australian central bank's April meeting, nothing much has changed. Au contraire, some have even improved - unemployment rate, retail spending, business confidence and business ...