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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher with with base metal prices jumping and Wall Street making gains as interest-rate-sensitive shares were snapped up by investors. The US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) continues its two-day ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher as Wall Street gained ground on the prospect that the US central bank will lift interest rates again and base metal prices generally were up. The US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meets tonight ...

Market plunge drives record margin calls

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
Margin lenders CommSec and St George Bank made record numbers of margin calls on Monday night and after yesterday's All Ordinaries 409 point drubbing, with another record in the making last night. CommSec managing director Matt Comyn, speaking late ...

MFS director waves goodbye

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
Investors of property and tourism investment company MFS may be nervously waiting the decision on City Pacific's $830 million offer for the firm's funds management business, but one of the firm's non-executive director, Michael Hiscock, won't be staying ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher this morning, following positive leads from Wall Street and from base metals in London overnight. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0839 AEDT, the March share price index was UP 61 points to 6,027. ...

Operation auction squad

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2007
While the US Fed crafts yet another master plan to fix the sub-prime fiasco, a quiet revolution is happening inside Australia's Reserve Bank. The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the US Federal Reserve and the Swiss National ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
The Australian stock market is expected to open higher after US stocks advanced on Monday as investors snapped up beaten-down financial shares on news of the latest injection of funds into a major global bank. Expectations of a Federal Reserve interest-rate ...

BT float sold out

Westpac closed its shareholder offer of shares in BT Investment Management Limited yesterday, ahead of the December 3 closing date, after receiving "strong support" from its shareholders. Applications received by the share registry before November 28 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open lower after financial stocks fell in New York amid rising investor concern about mortgage defaults and lower consumer spending during the holiday shopping season. At 0740 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Comminsure motors along

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2007
The bancassurance model is alive and well. The Commonwealth Bank's life and general insurance business, Comminsure, has moved to do its own underwriting on its car insurance product because it believes it can get greater value out of its retail network ...