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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
The Australian market is expected to open lower on mixed leads from offshore trading overnight. Wall Street's key indices were flat to lower, precious and base metals and oil were down, but European markets were higher. At 0745 AEST on the Sydney Futures ...

PM Gillard makes wealth reforms more likely

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
The elevation of Julia Gillard to become Australia's first female Prime Minister, which increases the odds the government will be re-elected and possibly win back a few senate seats, makes it more likely that the government's financial services reform ...

NZ Commission gives AMP all clear

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
New Zealand's Commerce Commission has cleared AMP to buy AXA's Australian and New Zealand businesses. According to a Commerce Commission statement, the regulator considered the impact of the deal across wealth protection, retail funds management, wholesale ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
The Australian stock market is expected to open higher on Monday, after a positive finish on Wall Street and firmer oil and gold prices. At 0733 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index futures contract was up six points ...

Liquidnet taps NZ market

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
Liquidnet, a firm which provides a marketplace to facilitate institutional equities trading, is expanding its trading operations to include New Zealand listed securities. Liquidnet will commence trading of New Zealand equities next Tuesday, offering ...

AXA and Wealth.net split poses planner risk

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... offering." NAB announced in a statement last Friday that it is continuing to pursue its options regarding the ACCC's decision to block the bank's proposed acquisition of the Australian and New Zealand business of AXA Asia Pacific Holdings (AXA APH). ...

NAB addresses ACCC concerns

ASX STATEMENT  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2010
... said it is continuing to pursue its options regarding the the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's decision to block the bank's proposed acquisition of the Australian and New Zealand business of AXA Asia Pacific Holdings (AXA APH). Back in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
... finances. Shares in BP PLC plunged 13.1 per cent, on the first of trading after the oil company's latest failed attempt to block the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. London's FTSE index closed down 25.13 points, or 0.48 per cent, at 5,163.29. FRANKFURT ...

NAB gains more time on AXA deal

ASX RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
AXA Asia Pacific, AXA SA and NAB have each agreed to extend the period for NAB to satisfy concerns raised by ACCC till 15 June this year. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said last month it would oppose NAB's proposal to buy ...

Simpler, faster, cheaper rollovers: IFF

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2010
... participate in the service. Francis Cox, spokesperson of IFF, said the aim of the project was to use e-commerce as the building block for a more efficient rollover system. "Our goal with the project is to make it as easy as possible for investors to ...