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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013
... releases lending finance data for July, while the Westpac/Melbourne Institute Survey of Consumer Sentiment is also due out. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Tuesday approached its highest point for the year as investor ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... Fortescue had lifted 2.5 cents to $4.565 and goldminer Newcrest Mining had shot up 45 cents, or 3.5 per cent, to $13.25. The major banks were mixed, with National Australia Bank 9.0 cents higher at $32.86, ANZ down 4.5 cents to $29.645, Commonwealth ...

Appetite for overseas assets continues to grow

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
An increasing number of Australian investors are planning to make investments in overseas assets over the next three months, partly driven by a surprise lift in appetite for fixed income investments, according to the latest Certitude Global Investor ...

Industry backs Cormann as Superannuation Minister

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
Major financial services bodies are throwing their support behind Mathias Cormann, asking for him to be appointed Minister of Superannuation and Financial Services in the new Government. "I've only ever asked one thing of Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
... Fortescue had lifted 2.5 cents to $4.565 and goldminer Newcrest Mining had shot up 45 cents, or 3.5 per cent, to $13.25. The major banks were mixed, with National Australia Bank 9.0 cents higher at $32.86, ANZ down 4.5 cents to $29.645, Commonwealth ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
... ANZ releases its job advertisements series for month just ended and the Rabobank Rural Confidence Survey is due out. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Friday closed flat as investors sit on their hands ahead of Saturday's ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
... many of the companies have been telling us; they need to see everything signed on the dotted line before they can make some major decisions." A strong Senate result for the coalition, or conservative minor players like Katter's Australian Party and Palmer's ...

Coalition victory to boost business confidence

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
A Coalition victory in tomorrow's election will provide a welcome boost to business confidence but without a majority in both houses the lift may not be enough to plug the hold left by the end of the mining investment phase, according to UBS strategist ...

Independent providers fail at cross-selling banking products

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
AMP and industry funds are the major providers of superannuation for consumers and businesses, but they have had very little success at selling banking products to their customers. Only 1.6% of industry fund personal members deal with ME Bank and only ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... figures for the June quarter were unlikely to have a significant impact on the market today. "I don't think it will have a major bearing today," he said. "It would be nice to see some good growth coming through, but it is a backward-looking indicator ...