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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... the DAX fell 0.55 per cent to 7,443.95 points while in Paris the CAC 40 slid 0.11 per cent to 4,018.85 points. TOKYO - Japanese shares fell 0.70 per cent as the banking sector suffered a sell-off after the government hinted it may call on banks to waiver ...

ASIC draft moves FEX closer to reality

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... which has its own derivatives trading. This is the second exchange to emerge as a potential competitor for the ASX, after Japanese exchange Chi-X confirmed it would begin trading in Australia later this year. ASIC said the consultation on these rules ...

TOWER completes share sale

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... renamed TAL in November, said in a statement to the ASX that shareholders will be paid $4 per share. TOWER is merging with Japanese insurance company Dai-ichi Life in a $1.2 billion deal, agreed in December 2010. Dai-ichi has held a 29 per cent stake ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... trading 32 cents, or 6.71 per cent, higher at $5.09. Nufarm's boss, Doug Rathbone, sold 4.5 million shares to the company's Japanese major shareholder, Sumitomo, allowing it to increase its shareholding in Nufarm by 1.3 per cent, to 21.7 per cent.

Foreign shocks sparks IT scrutiny

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... wasting resources until needed - which is never unless they are very unlucky. But recent Middle East unrest and the recent Japanese disaster have made firms re-think their emergency data back-up plans. The old active/passive approach means firms are ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... $6.46 after the company lowered its underlying profit guidance because of deferred deliveries due to earthquake damage to Japanese coal handling and steel plant. National turnover reached 1.6 billion shares, worth $2.4 billion, with 498 shares up, 467 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... cent to $95.94 after posting record sales in the first quarter, with strong growth in Asia despite the impact of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. UPS, up 0.9 per cent at $74.30, reported a 66 per cent jump in first quarter profit and raised its forecast ...

Derivatives sky high since SGX fall

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... disaster in Japan created uncertainty about the prospects for global growth." The exchange said market volatility due to the Japanese natural disaster as well as the roll activity in the lead up to the quarterly benchmark futures expiries lead to a spike ...

Buying op

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... profits and ultimately, weaker economic growth. Just a month or so ago -- at the height of the MENA tension and before the Japanese earthquake - oil experts were in vogue. MarketWatch dot com printed Kevin Kerr's ominous thesis that US$300 crude is not ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... Monday as news that the United States had agreed a budget to avert a shutdown was tempered by profit-taking and weak Japanese pre-quake trade data. Tokyo fell 0.50 per cent, or 48.38 points, to 9,719.70 after the index on Friday closed at its highest ...