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Double Bay brokers banned

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) banned Double Bay - based Phillip Dryer and Colin Littlemore from providing financial services for four years after the regulator found they were operating without a licence. The regulator ...

Cost of share trading spikes

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
The cost of trading Asian and Australian equities rose by 150 per cent last year compared to a year ago after bid-ask spreads widened to abnormal levels during the credit crisis, according to research. Trading cost data and analysis provider ITG released ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
The Australian market is expected to open higher following positive leads from Wall Street, with oil also higher, although precious metals were lower. At 0822 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was 27 points higher at 3,480. ...

Halmarick joins CFS

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
Former Citigroup managing director Stephen Halmarick joins Colonial First State Global Asset Management as head of investment markets research. With a career spanning more than 23 years, Halmarick was most recently managing director and co-head of Citigroup's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
The Australian stock market has received a mixed lead from Wall Street overnight, with key indices mixed while oil and precious metals fell. At 0832 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was seven points higher at 3,467. In ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
The Australian stock market is expected to open lower after a mostly weaker lead from Wall Street before turning its attention to the Reserve Bank of Australia's interest rate decision on Tuesday. At 0702 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March ...

AXA Asia Pac growth mixed

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
AXA Asia Pacific enjoyed strong year-to-December fund flows in China, India, Thailand and Malaysia but 'new business' outside insurance slowed in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. The company announced last week that due to the weak markets globally ...

Darkest before dawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
Well now, there we have it. If the January effect holds, US equity investors and the rest of us should all go on vacation and come back next year. The January effect postulates that the US stock market's performance for the entire month of January predicts ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
The Australian stock market is expected to open lower, after the falls in US equities, before attention turns to the Reserve Bank of Australia's interest rate decision. At 0720 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was 64 ...

Worst of the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
No prize for guessing but which G-7 country is suffering a worse hangover than the US? Clue: Its name also starts with the word United. In its latest World Economic Outlook report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted that global growth would ...