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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2007
... here." Resources were little changed despite stronger metals prices overnight. BHP Billiton announced it had approved a major expansion to its Pilbara iron ore operations in Western Australia, which will increase annual output to 155 million tonnes ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2007
... markets." Mr Russell dismissed some analysts' concerns the market was overpriced, saying there was still "reasonable value". The major miners were all trading higher, despite weaker metals prices overnight. On the London Metal Exchange, nickel prices ...

Compliance maze killing product innovation

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2007
... this stifling of productivity and growth will undermine Australia's ability to compete with more efficient countries." A major focus of the negotiations was whether the shared equity mortgage would be treated as a consumer credit contract and be regulated ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2007
... an appreciation of the Yuan so as to stem the tide of cheap Chinese goods flooding the American market which now is the major source of the record Chinese trade surplus. The unpopular response of China was to tie their currency to a basket of currencies ...

Russell best ideas fund recommended by Zenith

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2007
Zenith has rated the Russell Select Holdings Fund, a fund of best ideas, recommended on the back of its "sound and logical rationale". The Russell fund compiles a concentrated portfolio of just 20 stocks. The Select Holdings Strategy was launched in ...

St.George restructure at the top

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2007
St.George Bank has announced a major restructure of the business and a number of key executive changes. A new retail bank and wealth management division has been created, integrating the retail business division headed by David Gall and the retail financial ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2007
Australian stocks have taken a major dive on the back of weaker commodity prices and a poor lead from Wall Street. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index shed 103.7 points or 1.77 per cent to 5761.3 while the all ordinaries lost 101.3 points or ...

Investment reporting methods must be equitable: JPM WSS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2007
... scheme operator applying either a unitised or crediting rate methodology." Eliminating arbitrage opportunities is another major factor. "In many instances this [the shift to daily pricing] has been due to the need to reduce arbitrage opportunities (often ...

E-Trading goes platinum

... being of paramount importance and we offer single screen access to global counterparties...so they can watch and trade the major global currencies on the same screen." Michelle Baltazar

Funds address $750m in errors: Deloitte

... On the plus side, Deloitte found that a majority 59 per cent of those who reviewed their policies said there won't be any major adjustments to their existing procedure. "We acknowledge that there are many thousands of unit prices calculated by the industry ...