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Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
The Australian market looks set to open slightly higher, despite falls on Wall Street overnight, as investors await the outcome of European Central Bank and Federal Reserve policy meetings it's hoped will result in stimulus measures. At 0805 AEST on ...

US releases model FATCA agreement

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012
US Treasury has released details for future intergovernmental agreements on FATCA, a step that the Financial Services Council says brings resolution of the US-Australia potential compliance problem one step closer. The model agreement will serve as ...

Going for gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open higher after strong finishes on overseas markets on Friday after the leaders of Germany, and the European Central Bank pledged support for the euro. At 0755 AEST on Monday, the September share price index ...

Julius Baer, BOC in private wealth JV

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
Swiss private bank Julius Baer has announced a strategic partnership with the Bank of China in an aim to secure better access to Asia's growing class of ultra rich. As part of the deal, the Bank of China (BOC) has sold its Swiss unit to Julius Baer ...

Believe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
"C'mon baby light my fire..." That exactly was what European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi did when he spoke at the Global Investment Conference in London last night. Read his lips: "To the extent that the size of these sovereign premia ...

Model FATCA intergov agreement imminent

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
Following talks with US Treasury officials, the FSC said a model intergovernmental agreement on FATCA would be released in the next few weeks. FSC chief John Brogden has urged the Australian government to take advantage of the option and act quickly ...

Playing with a loaded dice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
It's another one of those days - those days of rumours and gossips and whispers. And oh, digging around for reasons on why the glass is half empty. It was risk on after cyberspace got wind of ECB council member Ewald Nowotny telling Bloomberg that the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... to 3081.74 points and Frankfurt's DAX 30 rose by 0.25 per cent to 6406.52 points as investors set aside news of sliding German investor confidence. Italian and Spanish markets rebounded, clawing back some of their recent losses suffered on eurozone debt ...

ESG sheds light on Sov debt crisis: AXA IM

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
... fears grow that Spain will need a full international bailout. On Monday ratings agency Moody's lowered the outlook for the German economy to "negative" from "stable" - along with a similar move for the Netherlands and Luxembourg.