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AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... interest-rate cut. At 0751 AEST on Monday, the December share price index futures contract was up 52 points at 5,360. The People's Bank of China (PBOC) on Friday cut its one-year rate for deposits by 0.25 of a percentage point to 2.75 per cent and its ...

Advisers confronted with harsh reality of whistleblowing

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... stressful and takes a toll on the whistleblower's life, but it is worth it because it makes a difference, former Commonwealth Bank adviser and whistleblower Jeff Morris told advisers at the Financial Planning Association (FPA) Congress. "There's a moment ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... Tinto 43 cents higher at $56.82 and Fortescue Metals eight cents better at $2.72. Among the big four banks, the Commonwealth Bank was down 19 cents at $80.17, ANZ had lost six cents to $31.88, and Westpac was 18 cents worse off at $32.33. But National ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... QQE; and the PBOC (depending on how much slower the Politburo could tolerate slowing growth) could ease.... and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would keep the official cash rate on ice "until 2016". I placed quotation marks on "until 2016" cause ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... Lucas said. The major banks were experiencing some stability after falling in the wake of trading ex-dividend. Commonwealth Bank was up 10 cents at $80.64, ANZ was up 21 cents at $31.98, National Australia Bank was up 16 cents at $32.29, while Westpac ...

Cormann to keep up the FoFA fight

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
The government will continue with its quest to push through amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms despite last night's crushing defeat in the Senate. Finance Minister Mathias Cormann told ABC Radio this morning that the government ...

India mutual funds reach A$149bn

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... the Indian equity market. High net worth investors account for 28% of the market with mass affluent retail making up 20%. Bank distributed mutual funds make up about half the market while about one third of managed funds in India are distributed through ...

Minute slip on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... final US$15 bil, it has to go through with it (less its credibility gets shot) but... this bad news would keep the US central bank from raising interest rates sooner rather than later - and this is good news. Still, this is not the case, that is, if ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... December share price index futures contract was down 10 points at 5,365. In local economic news on Thursday, the Commonwealth Bank business sales indicator for October is due out. Meanwhile, Westpac chief economist Bill Evans is slated to speak at a ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... Tinto had dropped 66 cents to $58.81, and Fortescue Metals had fallen 15 cents to $2.82. Among the major banks, Commonwealth Bank sagged 32 cents to $80.63, ANZ dipped two cents to $31.81, National Australia Bank slipped 18.5 cents to $32.185, and Westpac ...