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Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... early gains. Among the major banks, ANZ was 16 cents higher at $33.50, Westpac was up 16 cents at $34.31, National Australia Bank had added 12 cents to $35.00 and Commonwealth Bank was up 36 cents at $76.87. In the resources sector, Rio Tinto had advanced ...

Bouncy bouncy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... requires further monetary stimulus. That's an important dimension for our price stability." And for that bit extra hammering in, Bank of France's head Christian Noyer added that, "The stronger the euro is, the more accommodative policy is needed." We ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... double its previous estimate. Sales had fallen in January and December. Locally, in economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia monthly board meeting minutes are due to be released, while RBA assistant governor (financial markets) Guy Debelle ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
... traders take a cautious approach ahead of the US corporate reporting season, and amid instability in Ukraine. America's biggest bank, JP Morgan, missed its profit estimates by almost four per cent last week, which has prompted falls by local banking ...

Bloomberg takes over UBS commodities indices

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
... partnership with UBS to allow its index business responsibility for governance, calculation, distribution and licensing of the bank's commodity indexes. From 1 July, the indexes will be renamed from the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index Family to the Bloomberg ...

SMSFs want access to infrastructure and corporate bonds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
The Financial System Inquiry should look into ways of making direct investment in infrastructure and corporate bonds more accessible to self-managed super funds (SMSFs), the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) has argued. SMSFs currently ...

A 1987-style crash cometh (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
The Johnny Littles of the financial market world are once more coming out of the woodworks, proclaiming that, "A crash is coming, a crash is coming"! They point to the biotech and social media stocks that are fast running out of puff that could produce ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... have dived $1.63, or 14.3 per cent, to $9.78 after the company flagged a 15 per cent drop in its first half earnings. The Bank of Queensland is in a trading halt after announcing plans for a $440 million acquisition of Investec Bank's professional finance ...

ASIC admits wrongdoing in Senate hearing

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... focused on ASIC's performance in dealing with allegations of poor advice, document forgery and fraud within Commonwealth Bank's financial planning unit. ASIC commissioner Peter Kell admitted that "it took us too long to move to the next step" when it ...

Super fund CEOs compete on breast cancer fundraiser

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... managing partner of law firm Cornwall Stodard, having raised $28,320. She was followed by David Jones' Paul Zahra and ME Bank's Jamie McPhee. In fourth place, at $8,591, was HOSTPLUS' David Elia, followed closely by Cbus chief executive David Atkin ...