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Oil slip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
No more quotas. No more targets. No more ceilings. This was OPEC's (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries) decision at their meeting in Vienna last Friday - the decision that sent oil prices down to 6-year lows. WTI oil dropped by 5.8% to US$37.65 ...

IOSCO releases retail investor education report

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
IOSCO, the International Organisation of Securities Commissions, has released its final report on investor education for retail consumers. In a statement, IOSCO said it has long recognised investor education as a key strategy for enhancing investor ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... calendar this week includes May auto sales, the May jobs report and meetings of the European Central Bank and Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. Dow member Microsoft rose 0.8 per cent after announcing it will begin selling its Windows ...

NAB too big to change culture overnight: Thorburn

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... still got to make changes there. But how long does cultural change take? It probably takes five, 10 years for an organisation of our size to get true integrity and consistency. "But even then, because people are people, there'll be mistakes and there ...

CFA names new president and chief executive

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
... of last year following the tenure of former president and chief executive John Rogers, CFA. Smith will lead the organisation of more than 127,000 investment professionals in 147 countries, most of whom are CFA charterholders. He has more than 30 years ...

Market wrap PM

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... the board. On Wall Street on Friday, market indices were mixed as energy-related stocks were hammered, after the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) decided not to cut production from 30 million barrels a day in response to crude prices ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... fall in seven weeks as energy stocks were punished on weaker oil prices. The selloffs came after the 12-nation Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on Thursday maintained its collective output ceiling at 30 million barrels per day, where ...

Sliding oil price would stop the slide in the oil price

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
The cartel that controls 40% of oil production - the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) - met and concluded their 166th meeting in Vienna, Australia last night. The conclusion: "...in the interest of restoring market equilibrium, the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... fell 0.45 per cent or 107.70 points to 24,004.28 on turnover of HK$72.888 billion (US$9.4 billion) ahead of an Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) decision on quotas and after an unexpected drop in Chinese industrial profits. Coming ...

ASIC calls for standard cyber risk measure

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
... efficiency of global capital markets." Speaking at a Bloomberg Address in Sydney, Medcraft said that the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has made the risk of cyber-attacks "a priority" under his chairmanship. He said that ...