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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
... or 1.38 per cent, to $10.01. Among other companies reporting earnings, Leighton Holdings booked a 25 per cent drop in half year net profit and forecast a full year profit fall of more than 20 per cent. Its shares had recovered since the open to be up ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
... points." Telstra's shares climbed five cents, or 1.74 per cent, to $2.93 as investors continued to digest the company's half year result, announced on Thursday. Telstra was the top traded stock by volume, with 71.6 million shares being traded for a value ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
... 4.85 per cent, at $18.62. House builder AV Jennings was up five cents, or 10.4 per cent, at 53 cents after it posted half year net profit up 228 per cent and a strong outlook as demand for new housing remains ahead of supply. The most traded stock by ...

Macq gives update on US arm

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
... Funds Group, said that Delaware was 'performing fantastically' and continued to outperform in the quarter since its last half year results. Delaware's AUM is now at the highest point in its history On the investment management side, Wikramanayake said ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
The Australian market is receiving generally positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with all key Wall Street indices higher, although gold was flat and oil was lower. Copper hit a record high. On the ASX 24 at 0710 AEDT, the March share price ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
... website, MySpace. Meanwhile, gambling giant Tabcorp Holdings was up 22 cents, or 3.19 per cent, at $3.76 after posting half year net profit up 2.9 per cent on the first half of 2009/10. It also says the recent floods on the east coast of Australia in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
... maturing May 27, 2011. In equities news, reporting season begins to gather pace. In New York, News Corporation issues half year and second quarter results after market close on Wall Street (0800 AEDT). In Australia, Tabcorp Holdings Ltd also issues first ...

Ponzi scheme operator jailed

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
The sole director of failed Melbourne-based loan and mortgage broking business, Victorian Finance Broking Services (VFBS), has been sentenced to four years and nine months imprisonment following an ASIC investigation. Hazel Bucello plead guilty to five ...

Finsia CEO to step down

NEWS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
After almost three-and-a-half years at the helm of Finsia, chief executive officer Martin Fahy will be handing over the reins this year. Finsia's president Malcolm McComas said that Fahy had led Finsia through a period of remarkable transformation since ...

ASIC slaps tough penance for fin services misconduct

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
In a landmark case, a young broker charged with multiple counts of insider trading has received a four-and-a-half year jail sentence, the highest sentence on record for that offence in Australia. On December 2 John Joseph Hartman, 25, of Mosman, New ...