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Midday Market Wrap: Banking sector boosts market

... "The banks are stronger again," said Wilson HTM senior private client adviser Angus Bligh. "Really the second rate cut was pretty much factored in and now that it has happened, the market is moving forward a bit. "So all the banks are up today, particularly ...

Midday Market Wrap: Bank shares surge, dollar jumps on interest rate hike

... strategist Stephen Halmarick said the Australian dollar bounced from $US0.7300 to 0.7316 at 0933 AEDT. "The increase was pretty much as expected and factored into markets and the Aussie dollar was up sharply overnight," he said. The local unit hit a ...

Midday market wrap: $A weaker at noon as market drifts without US impetus

AAP | FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2003

... buy dips under $US0.7200, looking for a break above 0.7250 maybe in the next week. With the Americans off everything is pretty quiet and you'd expect London to be fairly quiet tonight through the European session." Australian traders seemed happy to ...

Simon Crean steps down from Labor leadership

AAP | FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2003

... ballot for the leadership at next week\'s caucus meeting on Tuesday. He said he would not be a candidate. \"It\'s been a pretty sleepless night but when I got up this morning I decided to call a ballot for the leadership of the parliamentary Labor Party ...

Midday Market Wrap: Market buoyant following US rally

... yesterday's close of 0.7231/36. It reached a high of $US0.7195 and a low of $0.7175 in morning trade. "It's been trading in a pretty narrow range, particularly relative to what happened overnight," Deutsche Bank currency strategist Richard Yetsenga said. ...

NAB takeover of AMP a risk to BT if executed well: BT

AAP | FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2003

... opportunities. "So that's what it boils down to. "I think that picking it I would say if it did occur, we would expect it to execute pretty well and that would clearly be a risk to not just us but to the rest of the industry. "It's a very, very big operation." ...

Afternoon market wrap: Australian shares close higher

WITH AAP | WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2003

... Newcrest Mining was 13 cents lower at $12.66 and Lihir Gold shed two cents to $1.62. "A lot of these gold stocks have had pretty good runs in anticipation of the gold price reaching $US400, so just getting there was a relief," Mr Halliday said. Stock ...

Afternoon market wrap: Shares, bonds close down

... Michael Jansen said prices lifted off their lows on the less hawkish than expected statement. "It seemed to me to read pretty much close to the statement we got last week with the rate hike, so not much new in it," he said. Most economists said the statement ...

Midday market wrap: Shares, bonds lower on RBA move

... were expecting a move today there could be profit takers at 70.90," he said. "If we got through 71 we could head to 71.50 pretty quickly." He said the Reserve Bank was much more upbeat now about the global economy. "The strength in Japan, East Asia... ...

Economists expect sedate employment growth for September

... number, because we will not have had a sustained period of the unemployment rate this low for decades and it will be a pretty good news story," he said. Geoff Kendrick, a Westpac economist, said that he also expected a rise of 10,000 in the workforce ...

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Trustees, platforms, cyber risk under APRA spotlight

KARREN VERGARA

Superannuation trustees, platforms and cyber resilience will be under more scrutiny in the 2027 financial year from the prudential regulator.

ASIC draws parallels between ASX and super trustee failures

RIDDHIMA TALWANI

ASIC commissioner Simone Constant has urged superannuation trustees to make good use of member data to better understand their needs as they move towards and through retirement.

Perpetual hit with double whammy redemption, impairment

KARREN VERGARA

Perpetual's earnings will be slugged with a massive impairment thanks to an unnamed client redeeming nearly $6.5 billion (US$4.6bn) from a strategy run by Thompson, Siegel & Walmsley LLC (TSW).

GQG hit by $21bn outflows, FUM falls

VINNY VUCAGO

GQG Partners has recorded US$15.1 billion ($21.2 billion) in net outflows in the first half of 2026, sending funds under management (FUM) down 9.5% despite resilient investment performance across several of its strategies.

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