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CMC continues broking push

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... on smaller brokers open up more opportunities in the sector. Traditionally catering for Contracts for Difference (CFDs) traders, CMC Markets moved into direct share trading in January last year when it acquired broking firm Andrew West Stockbrokers (AWS). ...

Instinet makes a splash Down Under

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
... electronic trading services in Asia, specialising in offering 'best execution' service particularly for high-frequency traders. But what could attract prospective Australian clients is the company's business model. It is a pure agency broker, which means ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... per cent, to 3731.6, while the broader All Ordinaries gained 21.8 points, or 0.59 per cent, to 3690. NEW YORK - Cautious traders pushed US stock prices lower on Tuesday in a muted reaction to a deadly swine flu outbreak, while General Motors rallied ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
... 37.21, or 4.28 per cent, to 832.39, and the Nasdaq composite index declined 64.86, or 3.88 per cent, to settle at 1,608.21. Traders had been looking for some pullback after the Dow jumped 24 per cent from a 12-year low in early March, led largely by ...

CBA adds Apama software

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... equities trading software to make the bank's trading division more efficient. The software, Progress Apama, allows the bank's traders to apply specific and proprietary algorithms to automate select transactions. The Commonwealth Bank is also able to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... health of financial institutions reeling from turmoil and nervousness at the start of the first-quarter earnings season. Traders said that the market was nervous ahead of the January-March earnings reporting season, which kicked off after the market ...

Away for Easter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
... moving data released overnight to steer direction one way or the other. The overriding reason is perhaps many investors, traders and speculators have already hanged their hats for their Easter break to do battle again after Christ's resurrection. To ...

Bonus hocus pocus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2009
... percentage of overall compensation come from fixed base salary." According to BA Master of the Universe Brian Moynihan, traders and other employees' salaries outside the investment bank would be adjusted so that bonuses would no longer comprised a big ...

ASIC bans Macquarie rumourmonger

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
... Trust and Macquarie Group. The investigation found Macphillamy, while working at Linwar Securities, sent emails to 32 traders around the world about a run on the Macquarie Cash Management Trust. The emails asserted Macquarie Group would not be able to ...

AIG: 100 per cent GFC proof

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
'Under these circumstances, it's hard to understand how derivative traders at A.I.G. warranted any bonuses at all, much less US$165 million in extra pay. How do they justify this outrage to the taxpayers who are keeping the company afloat?' US President ...