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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... cent to 9,467.53 points and the CAC 40 in Paris dropped 0.78 per cent to 4,428.07 points. "European markets traded in the red today despite positive service sector reports from the UK and the mainland as Barclays reported disappointing earnings and the ...

BT Financial Group posts 21% profit rise

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
The performance of BT Financial Group has boosted Westpac Group's half-year results, with the division reporting cash earnings of $438 million, a 21% increase on the same period last year. BT Financial Group chief executive Brad Cooper attributed the ...

Industry asks for long-term, comprehensive approach to Age Pension

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
The financial services industry has asked the government to take a long-term, comprehensive approach to any changes to the Age Pension and to the superannuation preservation age, following the release of the National Commission of Audit report. The ...

ECB to stay in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
Phew! That was close. No Virginia, we didn't hear this sigh of relief from European Central Bank president Mario Draghi yesterday, but we would have had the Fed's policy announcement and America's first quarter GDP growth update not drowned out the ...

YBR adds 13 branches to its network

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
Yellow Brick Road (YBR) has increased its distribution footprint to 197 branches across Australia, with 13 new additions in the first quarter of 2014. The group signed its first agreement in the Northern Territory and opened a retail branch in Melbourne ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... Reserve said the US economy was picking up after a winter slowdown. The local market opened higher but then fell into the red because of weakness in the mining sector. "The story today will come down to the iron ore players and the fact that we saw a ...

ANZ wealth division profits up 11%

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
An 11% increase in ANZ's global wealth division's profit has contributed to the banking group's strong overall half-year result. In an announcement on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), the group reported a 15% climb in statutory profit to $3.4 ...

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
No surprise, no surprise. Another month... another US$10 billion off the Fed's asset shopping budget and more stressing that interest rates would remain low for a "considerable" time. You, I and Irene very much expected the Federal Open Market Committee's ...

Brogden reveals thinking behind FWC legal challenge

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014
The Financial Services Council's (FSC) decision to challenge the constitutional basis of the Fair Work Commission (FWC) Expert Panel in the Federal Court is part of a strategy to "damage the credibility of the process", FSC chief executive John Brogden ...

The music's still playing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014
Who me? Worry, because... May is nigh? Looking at last night's trading action on Wall Street, Wall Streeters appear to be fear missing out (on more gains) more than they do that of the prospect of the "sell in May" crowd, going away in May. Just look ...