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Freedom Insurance suspends trading

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
Freedom Insurance Group has requested the ASX to suspend its shares indefinitely. Freedom first requested a trading halt on February 5 based on a "pending announcement providing a material update on the financial position of Freedom and its subsidiaries." ...

Blue Sky refunds $4.1m overcharge

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... two of the incidents have been rectified. In light of these announcements, Blue Sky shares have been placed under a trading halt.

Chief economist update: China's neo-great leap forward

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
Quitaly and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's exit and the curious case of the US-North Korea summit have drowned China's modern version of the "Great Leap Forward". The first day of June marked when MSCI included Chinese A-shares into ...

S&P reaffirms Sirtex after new offer from Chinese manager

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... remain in the S&P/ASX 200 after its US takeover has been postponed in light of a new offer. Sirtex entered into a trading halt and then announced Chinese alternatives manager, CDH Investments, had made an offer to acquire 100% of the company at a price ...

Blue Sky hits back at hedge fund, requests ASIC intervention

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2018
... disproves many of its fundamental assertions"; and is "materially misleading." Explaining why Blue Sky entered a trading halt following the release of Glaucus' statement, Kain said the opinion piece "had the potential to create a false market in Blue ...

US hedge fund slams Blue Sky

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018
... discount, we estimate that the company's shares are worth at most $2.66 per share," Glaucus said. Blue Sky went into a trading halt following Glaucus' announcement and then followed up with an initial response which said there were a large number of ...

Aurora calls out 8IP directors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
... capital in connection to that sale. 8EC currently has about 2.5% of its net tangible assets in BIG, which entered a trading halt in mid-February and remains suspended on the ASX. The other directors Aurora is looking to replace are Jonathan Sweeney and ...

Hunter Hall rejects non-compliance claims

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2017
... the rest of the firm became aware of a potential sale on 29 December. While Hunter Hall shares were already in a trading halt as of 28 December, the ASX's Aware Letter quizzed the firm as to why information regarding the ongoing sale negotiations was ...

IOOF behind HUB24 buyout offer

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
... companies confirmed the move in statements to the Australian Securities Exchange and HUB24 placed its shares in a trading halt on Tuesday, as it revealed that the company behind the indicative, non-binding and conditional buyout proposal was IOOF. "Discussions ...

Still in the woods

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
"Oh, I love you more today than yesterday..." -- Spiral Staircase But would it be "...as much as tomorrow"? That's the musical version of "is this a dead cat bounce?" Yes Virginia, I refer to the Shanghai Composite Index which tumbled 5.9% one-day and ...