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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2007
... booming sharemarket. E*Trade has just over two per cent market share in Australia ranking it number twelve, Commonwealth banks discount broker CommSec has about double that to rank it the eleventh largest broker in the equities market and less than a ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2007
... Yesterday, the Australian stock market hit a record intraday high at just over 6000 points before pulling back, with the banks the key drivers. At the close, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 36.4 points higher at 5990.1 points, while the all ordinaries ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2007
The Australian stock market remained higher at noon, led by most of the big banks, and boosted by generally positive investor sentiment. "It (the market) has been surprisingly strong. There wasn't much of a lead from markets offshore at the weekend," ...

Super funds could offer transaction banking

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2007
... you can't build the technical framework to link with the direct connectors and get into the CECS system," says Hamilton. "Banks could be big losers out of this," says Peter Nicholas, head of retirement savings at AMP. "Looking out five years I think ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2007
... client advisor Michael Heffernan said the market was expecting strong half year profit announcements from several of the big banks. "You had Bendigo report recently and Commonwealth tomorrow, with a strong degree of optimism, and if one leader does well ...

Bendigo banks on advice

... services company with a successful franchise program primarily in Victoria and Queensland. Now it's taking on the four major banks in the wealth management category by proposing a new business model where bank tellers will have the same qualifications ...

Polaris eyes the big banks

... of India's largest software companies, Polaris, is set to launch new IT products in Australia aimed at helping the major banks save up to 30 per cent on their software development and maintenance costs. "Australian banks were one of the early adopters ...

China booming to a bubble?

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
... The Chinese Banking Regulation Commission (CBRC) is so concerned about the rising demand for equities that it has stopped banks from lending money for the purposes of stock market investment and has asked banks to recall previously approved equity investment ...

JPMorgan banks on alternative energy returns

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
JP Morgan has launched what it says is the first Australian retail structured product giving investors exposure to a diversified portfolio of global alternative energy assets with principal protection. The Alternative Energy Strategic Asset Security ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
... Street's estimates. LONDON - Britain's benchmark FTSE 100 index rose 0.45 per cent to its highest close in six years, buoyed by banks and continuing bid talk but held back by oil stocks as BP slashed its growth target. The FTSE 100 closed at 6,346.3 ...