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ThreeSixty Research team merges with JB Were

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
MLC research business ThreeSixty Research has joined forces with its fellow National Australia Bank (NAB)-owned business JB Were. NAB said there were would be no redundancies as a result of the merger, with the entire ThreeSixty listed equities team ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after international bourses extended their declines with investors still concerned over conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine and Argentina's debt default. At 0802 AEST on Monday, the September share ...

NAB CEO rejigs executive team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
The new National Australia Bank (NAB) chief executive Andrew Thorburn made a splash on his first day in the role, fulfilling his promise to deal with legacy issues and making major changes to the group's executive team. The changes have seen the departure ...

ASIC announces National Financial Literacy Strategy

HARRY PAGE  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... next generation to be MoneySmart is a key part of the National Strategy. With over 80% of Australian 15 year olds having a bank account, and about 90% of teenagers with a mobile phone, learning good financial skills and habits from an early age can make ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... plan to buy back shares from Royal Dutch Shell. The major four banks were also feeling the downward pressure. Commonwealth Bank had lost 88 cents to $82.87, ANZ had fallen 36 cents to $33.61, Westpac had shed 42 cents to $34.19 and NAB was 44 cents lower ...

BOQ completes acquisition of specialist Investec business

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
BOQ has officially completed its acquisition of Investec Australia's professional finance and asset Finance & leasing businesses. The asset finance & leasing business will merge with the existing BOQ Finance team. "This acquisition expands our business ...

ASX appoints Roche as a director

HARRY PAGE  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... over 20 years' experience in the global investment banks and was formerly a member of the global corporate and investment bank operating committee for J.P. Morgan. The appointment follows ASX's 2013 Annual General Meeting, where Heather Ridout and Ken ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... shed 1.53 per cent while London's benchmark FTSE 100 index fall 0.64 per cent In local economic news on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases the index of commodity prices for July, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases June quarter ...

Not that time yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... the functioning of the monetary policy transmission mechanism." These were the words that came out of the European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi's lips barely two months ago, straight after the ECB announced a 10 bps reduction in the repo ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... US sanctions ban Americans or people in US jurisdictions from any new medium- or long-term financing transactions with VTB Bank, its subsidiary Bank of Moscow and Russian Agricultural Bank. All three are controlled by the Russian government. Standard ...