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Growing credit crunch casualty list

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2007
... tax loss after losing $690 million on US home loans. Nomura will now walk away from US residential mortgage-backed securities cutting ties to the tune of 400 hundred job-cuts in the US and pushing it to an enormous loss for the second quarter. Japan's ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2007
... Exchange, the December share price index contract was down 83 points to 6713 on a volume of 12,057 contracts. Aequs Securities institutional dealer Ric Klusman said the local market was following a weak lead from Wall Street weighed by high oil prices ...

Market Wrap - Midday

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2007
... Exchange, the December share price index contract was two points lower at 6794 on a volume of 7,020 contracts. Aequs Securities institutional dealer Ric Klusman said AGL and PBL had "killed" positive sentiment in the market. "The market's also had such ...

Finsia appoints new CEO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2007
... involves members at all stages of their career path and supports the wider finance community," he said. An amalgamation of Securities Institute of Australia and the Australasian Institute of Banking and Finance, Finsia, is one of the largest financial ...

ASIC calls for tighter employment checks

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2007
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and Standards Australia have launched a new handbook to give employers a reference-checking framework for financial advisers. ASIC developed the handbook, Reference Checking in the Financial ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2007
... trading overseas, buoyed by oil, gold and other precious metals which surged, but weighed by a weak lead from Wall Street securities. At 0830 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December Share Price Index was down 26 points to 6800. Today, Worley ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007
... Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was up 62 points to 6771 on a volume of 7,946 contracts. Aequs Securities institutional dealer Ric Klusman said resource stocks have bounced back after falling yesterday. "BHP and Rio are up and ...

IWL's trading platform in your pocket

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007
IWL's online stockbroking business, Sanford Securities, has taken share trading mobile with the launch of Australia's first dedicated mobile share trading website for both 2G and 3G internet-enabled mobile phones and PDA's. Know as 'Sanford2GO', the ...

QIC appoints Aussie trading desk head

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2007
QIC has appointed former Austock Securities executive Chris Claridge as head of equities dealing. Claridge will manage QIC's Australian equities trading desk, focussing on alpha generation. He specialises in facilitation, portfolio trading and derivatives. ...

ASIC appoints new commissioner

Outgoing Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) commissioner Jeffrey Lucy takes up a post at the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) as a partner at Mallesons Stephen Jaques steps into his shoes. Lucy has taken up the role of part-time ...