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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
... had gained 32 cents to $37.69, Rio Tinto had added 10 cents to $64.20, and Fortescue Metals was steady at $5.46. Among the major banks, National Australia Bank had fallen 14 cents to $35.42 after it announced that chief executive Cameron Clyne will retire ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
... March is also slated for release. Vale chief executive Murilo Ferreira is to speak at a Melbourne Mining Club lunch. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Wednesday on closed higher thanks to strength in the resources sector ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... was up 35 cents at $37.40, Rio Tinto had added 45 cents at $64.30, and Fortescue Metals was 11 cents higher at $5.42. The major banks were mostly higher. National Australia Bank was up eight cents at $35.50, Westpac had put on three cents at $34.62 ...

Thinktank launches LRBA loan service

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... invested a great deal of time over the last two years in thoroughly analysing the various commercial SMSF loan offerings of the major banks as well as others in the market. "We are confident we have engineered the sort of loan flexibility that will fully ...

ASFA and AIST push for tighter regulation of SMSFs

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
Two of the major superannuation industry bodies have used their submissions to the Financial System Inquiry to call for tighter regulation of the self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF) sector. Both the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australian ...

Bank complaints over TV ads seek to "stifle" competition: ISA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
Industry Super Australia (ISA) said that major banks were behind the complaints to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in relation to the organisation's new 'Compare the Pair' television commercials. ISA deputy chief executive ...

ASX calls for Australia-based exchanges

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... markets and critical to the functioning of the economy. ASX's recommendations create an outcome that is consistent with other major financial markets. ASX has asked the Inquiry for its views on the need for ownership restrictions. It said that with direct ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... expectations survey is due out, as is the Australian Industry Group's performance of manufacturing (PMI) index for March. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Monday gained after a positive lead from global markets and more ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... the next couple of days," Mr Lucas said. "It is US (jobs) data week and we've got PMI data from across the globe." All the major stocks on the market were higher. BHP Billiton was leading the way, up 50 cents, or 1.4 per cent, at $36.64, despite no obvious ...

PROFILE: Westpac GM of bank financial planning

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... ashtray between you and the customer, and they'd smoke while they were talking to you." Technology, he says, has seen a major reduction in staff since then. In his old branch on Petrie Plaza, there were 120 staff. Now there are fewer than 20. The role ...