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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
... but closed just short of that mark. A loan agreement for Greece allowed US investors to focus on domestic economic and corporate news, including announcements of two big deals. European leaders agreed over the weekend to make loans available to Greece ...

Co-contribs bungle is costing taxpayers: Hartsuyker

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2010
... minister, Luke Hartsuyker. Hartsuyker, shadow minister for consumer affairs, financial services, superannuation and corporate law, said taxpayers could be forced to pay for interest on the outstanding amounts after the Australian Tax Office suspended ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2010
... energy and materials sectors generating the drive. Mr Land said financial results coming through from the quarterly corporate earnings season in the United States and economic date from China later this week would help determine whether the market stayed ...

Debt disclosure to revive agribusiness

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... operators to open their books to the public, including how much debt they owe, could renew investor confidence. This week corporate regulator ASIC released a consultation paper on how agribusiness managed investment schemes (MIS) can improve their disclosure ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... higher around midday after sales gains at the nation's major retailers raised expectations for the economy as well as the corporate earnings reports that start to arrive next week. Improved weather and an early Easter lifted sales at stores open at least ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
... the sector is seeing some profit-taking. "Gold stocks are the stand-out with the recent strength in the gold price and corporate activity with Newcrest and Lihir." At 1205 AEST, the world's biggest miner, BHP Billiton, was down 88 cents, or 1.97 per ...

African bourse on the rise

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... platform (ATS) that was launched on the same month. The platform ushers a new era in local trading after it pushed weekly corporate bond turnover from Kshs. 3.91 million on average in 2009 to the current Kshs. 75.76 million a week - a phenomenal increase ...

RBS adds to Aus markets team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... co-head of markets for Australia as the firm ramps up its local markets business. Cummins previously worked as head of corporate risk solutions at RBS in Hong Kong. In this role, he will manage over 60 staff across sales, trading and research and work ...

Acadian counts corp governance risk

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
Boston-based Acadian Asset Management has added another quantitative measure to its investment process to gauge corporate governance risk within listed companies. The 'management behaviour' measurement allows the team to evaluate the quality of a company's ...

UK pensions call for greater FM engagement

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
... Funds, said local and international fund managers should publicise how they monitor companies they invest in to improve corporate governance in listed firms. "While we continuously make it clear the crisis was a systemic failure and that all elements ...