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Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... $65.03 and Fortescue dropping seven cents to $4.63. The big four bankers also opened in negative territory. Commonwealth Bank was down 15 cents at $81.91, Westpac was 19 cents lower at $33.48, NAB had dipped 15 cents to $34.53 and ANZ had lost 12 cents ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... ended higher for a second day running, staging a tentative rebound from last week's losses after positive earnings and a bank rescue in Portugal. Frankfurt's main DAX index rose 0.39 per cent to end the day at 9,189.74 points, compared with Monday's ...

RBA leaves interest rates on hold

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
The Reserve Bank has again kept the cash rate unchanged, and is likely to do so for some time yet. The cash rate has now been at a record low of 2.5 per cent for 12 months. In a statement accompanying the RBA's August rate decision, governor Glenn Stevens ...

Consumer awareness of vertical integration plummets

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... with the big institutions has significantly increased over the past year. In 2013, 51% of the clients using Commonwealth Bank-owned Financial Wisdom thought that the dealer group was independent, but that number increased to 55% in 2014, according to ...

Mercer launches its own MDI

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... transfer super into a special account, from which they can allowing invest in ASX 300 shares, ETFs and term deposits from ME Bank, NAB and Macquarie. The launch is part of an industry wide move to offer superannuants more control over their investments ...

AustralianSuper, HOSTPLUS launch own-brand debit cards

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... Industry superannuation giants AustralianSuper and HOSTPLUS are offering members branded debit cards in association with the bank they collectively own, ME Bank. Members of the two funds can sign up to receive a debit card branded with the super fund's ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
The local sharemarket has opened flat ahead of the Reserve Bank's interest rate announcement and the full swing of earnings season. All 15 economists surveyed by AAP predict the RBA will leave the cash rate unchanged at 2.5 per cent on Tuesday. But ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... September share price index futures contract was up three points at 5,487. Locally, in economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia holds its monthly board meeting and makes its interest rate decision. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases ...

Advice register talks focus on financial advice scope

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... personal advice." The FPA chief executive Mark Rantall said: "you've got to separate who does personal financial advice against bank tellers or people providing general advice; my sense is that they should be categorised in different segments depending ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
The Australian share market continues to slide on negative leads from Wall Street and weaker commodity prices. Declines in the base metals and oil prices overnight, combined with further falls in US and European equity markets on Friday, are weighing ...