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AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
... strong gains on Wall Street after a strong jobs report fuelled expectations that the Federal Reserve will begin to reduce its huge stimulus soon. At 0809 AEDT on Monday, the December share price index futures contract was up 25 points at 5,209. In economic ...

Law must change on corporate actions automation: DST

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013
... paper's fading empire. "Corporate actions is one of the last highly manual operational areas," he said. "There's still a huge reliance on paper - faxes, manual communications and processing, both here and globally. While he said that, while the industry ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
... prior month. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets fell, with the banking sector sliding after the European Union slapped huge fines on six banks over rate-rigging. Sentiment was also hit after eurozone data highlighted falling retail sales, and slower-than-expected ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013
... over the weekend in Geneva sent oil prices down, weighing on the share prices in energy groups but boosting airlines facing huge fuel costs. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index added 0.30 per cent to 6,694.62 points on Monday, Frankfurt's DAX 30 climbed ...

ASIC beefs up surveillance system

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2013
... regulators face issues in being able to keep up with the speed and sophistication of their own markets, which is obviously a huge problem if you're trying to police the market effectively," First Derivatives' director APAC Rob Hodgkinson said. "The system ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
... down, not major movements," he said. "In the last couple of days, I'd say it's been profit taking because there's been such a huge run in the early part of November." Diversified miner BHP Billiton, Australia's second biggest listed company by market ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
... after the OECD cut its forecasts for global growth, citing the likely effect of any winding down in the Federal Reserve's huge stimulus program. Tokyo fell 0.33 per cent, or 50.48 points, to 15,076.08, Sydney lost 0.84 per cent, or 45.2 points, to end ...

Fund manager warns of 'Japanification' of Europe

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013
... that view since September," he said, adding that each country's central bank policy of quantitative easing has "provided huge amount of accommodation and stimulation to the economics of these countries." He said that at the same time inflationary pressures ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2013
... advanced against the US dollar as dealers took their cue from a record early session on Wall Street. London witnessed some huge gains and losses for individual shares, with Aberdeen Asset Management soaring and energy group Petrofac slumping. At close ...

HOSTPLUS direct investing option sees $9 million take-up

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2013