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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2007
... The S&P 500 reached a second straight record close on news of a $US6.8 billion ($A8.27 billion) takeover in the financial sector and data pointing to economic strength in the Midwest. But the Dow fell as gains were offset by profit-taking and lingering ...

Fidelity responds to Darfur campaign

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2007
... the SDC, which is also pressuring other money managers and pension funds said they will not stop lobbying the financial sector until the genocide is defeated. "As promising as this development is, our efforts are ultimately only victorious when the genocide ...

Microfinance bonds attract major instos

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2007
... mainly for making small loans (sometimes as little as A$60) to people considered unbankable by the conventional financial sector - and for achieving remarkably high repayment rates on those loans (with top-tier MFIs reporting repayment rates as high ...

A merger made in heaven

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
... complementary. Thomson's other businesses, in areas such as legal publishing, would also circumvent any downturn in the financial sector. The two firms estimate they can unlock synergies of around A$600m. But it may yet rain on their big day as there ...

FinLit in schools in 2008

CHRIS NICHOLLS AND ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2007
... one of the key problems with financial literacy was, according to chairman Paul Clitheroe, that people in the financial sector "speak a different language". Will Morony, executive officer of the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers, said, "Financial ...

UniSuper appoints Peacock, Cuffe as independent directors

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2007
... programs. The appointments mean the UniSuper board grows from 10 to 11 members. "We now have on our Board both a deep financial sector knowledge and wide-ranging experience in the needs of the higher education sector which we serve," Bryan said. "The ...

APRA modernises data collection

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2007
... specifications and improve the technology used to transfer the data to APRA. The new standards, to be made under the Financial Sector (Collection of Data) Act 2001, will mean greater consistency between forms used for authorised deposit-taking institutions ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2007
... Holdings, Europe's largest bank, warned that bad debts from its US mortgage lending business would hurt results. The financial sector was the worst performing group within the S&P 500, shedding 0.7 per cent in its largest daily slide in two weeks. Investors ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2007
... will kick off the local reporting season releasing its annual numbers, with Alumina also set to report. In the financial sector, Adelaide Bank will issue its first half results, and building materials maker James Hardie Industries is holding an extraordinary ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2006
... the central bank's dour view of the slowdown in the housing market. That hurt home builders' stocks, while the financial sector was dragged lower by a drop in Citigroup Inc shares following investor disappointment with its management reshuffle. The Dow ...