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ASX builds rival platform take on Chi-X

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
The ASX is set to introduce its own new products for equity traders as it loses its hold on Australian equities trading and prepares for the new competitive market starting later this year. Reacting to the Australian Securities and Investments Commissions ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... at 4,579.4 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up 52.8 points, or 1.15 per cent, at 4,662.7 points. On the ASX 24, the March share price index futures contract was 37 points higher at 4,572 points, with 70,824 contracts traded. The threat ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... world equity and commodities markets as the sell-off continues due to the nuclear danger looming in Japan. However on the ASX 24 at 0736 AEDT, the March share price index futures contract was up 13 points at 4,548. Australian shares hit a six-month low ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... happening, they will be preemptive and lift the cash rate. Meanwhile, the local bond market was firmer at noon. At 1200 AEDT on the ASX 24, the June three-year bond futures contract was at 94.995 (implying a yield of 4.005 per cent), while the June 10-year ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... over the effects of political turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East, and the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. On the ASX 24 at 0718 AEDT, the March share price index futures contract was five points lower at 4,604. In economics news on Tuesday ...

Countplus buys super law firm

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... SuperGeneration trust deed service would bring 'an additional recurring revenue arm to the business'. Countplus, owned by ASX-listed Count Financial, is the holding company of 18 established accounting and financial services businesses across Australia ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... ever recorded in Japan unleashed a monster tsunami. Meanwhile, the Australian bond market was firmer. At 1200 AEDT on the ASX 24, the March 10-year bond futures contract price was 94.530 (implying a yield of 5.470 per cent), up from Friday's close of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... the weekend, although world markets appear tentative as they assess the impact of the Japanese earthquake on Friday. On the ASX 24 at 0718 AEDT, the March share price index futures contract was eight points higher at 4,639. There is no economics news ...

Fund managers to face new norm in liquidity

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... increasingly prominent and allow clients to come in and buy stocks directly rather than going through a sales trader. The ASX suggests that high frequency trading accounts for 4-5 per cent of all trades on the market, although in reality the figure is ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
The Australian share market is heading for its heaviest weekly fall in about nine months, with further falls on Friday due to rising oil prices and disappointing economic data from the United States and China. At 1208 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index ...