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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2007
... reductions on the 18th of September in the US in line, I think it is all green flags for the next couple of months." The big banks all were up, with ANZ adding 12 cents to $29.11, the Commonwealth Bank 20 cents to $55.35, NAB 26 cents to $40.20, and ...

Macq Pastoral banks on beef demand

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2007
Macquarie Pastoral Group has made its second major purchase after it bought 'The Bulls Run', an established cattle and sheep property on the Murrumbidgee River in NSW, for an undisclosed amount. The new 7,500-hectare property concentrates its operations ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2007
... Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke reassured investors they would do what was needed to shelter the economy from market turmoil. Banks and brokers, which have borne the brunt of the recent credit crisis, rose in thin trading before a long holiday weekend. ...

Here, kitty kitty

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2007
... combination of falling supply and rising demand for basic food produce is set to bring serious inflationary pressures to central banks later this year." Drought and flooding across the globe have already cut harvest forecasts between 10 and 20 per cent ...

Service not fees drive consumers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2007
... Fujitsu, has revealed 80 per cent of banking customers take the way they are serviced so seriously they would consider changing banks if services remains low. In fact almost one-third of respondents to the study, which surveyed 26,000 people, said poor ...

Pengana launches global volatility fund

... strategy. Wilkinson believes that volatility is a measure of uncertainty and is an asset class in itself. "Some large investment banks use volatility trading strategies to generate significant revenues, and now this approach is available through Pengana ...

Sentiment stable as San Andreas fault

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2007
... levels of last month. The S&P/ASX 200 rose 96.70 points, or 1.6 per cent to 6185.20, thanks to strength in the big miners and banks, with 168 stocks rising, 28 falling, and five remaining steady. A big contributor to this performance was global miner ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2007
... slipped in thin trade as investors watchful of currency moves sold Toyota Motor and other exporters on a stronger yen, and banks and brokerage firms fell after losses in their US peers. The benchmark Nikkei average lost 13.90 points to 16,287.49. HONG ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2007
... offset. We might have a fairly flat week," Whiting said. "The market is a little softer today, although not dramatically. "The banks are marginally softer after financial stocks were weaker in the US on a small renewal of the housing sector problems ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2007
... highest level in more than 15 years in July, adding to concerns about the housing market and consumer spending. Shares of banks, brokers and mortgage lenders fell on persisting credit worries and after Goldman Sachs slashed its earnings forecast on Lehman ...