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CBA posts $4.27bn half year profit

AAP & ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has posted a $4.27 billion half year profit, up 14% on the previous year, helped along by strong growth in the wealth management division. The group's wealth management earnings as average funds under administration (FUA) grew ...

ANZ profit on the rise in first quarter

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... is now on target to achieve a full year cash profit of about $7 billion, higher than the previous year's $6.5 billion. The bank's provision charge for bad debts was $191 million in the December quarter, down from $322 million in the September quarter. ...

You say threshold, I say trigger

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... unemployment rate is just a threshold and thresholds are not triggers, what's the trigger?... and how is this good for central bank credibility?

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... of Consumer Sentiment is due out. In equities news, OZ Minerals is expected to post full year results while Commonwealth Bank, Boral, CSL, Stockland, Slater and Gordon, Carsales.com, Goodman Fielder, Primary Health, Domino's Pizza, Noni B, Computershare ...

CommInsure nabs exec from Swiss Re

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... effective April 7, 2014. Helen Troup will be leading CommInsure and joining the wealth management leadership team, Commonwealth Bank group executive of the management division Annabel Spring said. "Her extensive experience is reflected not only in the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... lost 52 cents to $66.50 while iron ore miner Fortescue was four cents lower at $5.55. Among the big banks, the Commonwealth Bank was slightly up by 0.5 cents to $74.855 while Westpac had lost 16 cents to $31.61, ANZ was unchanged at $29.91 and National ...

Macquarie says market conditions improving

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
Investment bank Macquarie Group still expects a stronger full year performance as general market conditions continue to show signs of improvement. Macquarie says its annuity-style businesses - Macquarie Funds; banking and financial services; and corporate ...

Oh what a feelin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... gloomy tat is the same as it was in December: "But these prophets of doom might be making a mountain of a molehill for as per Bank of America Merrill Lynch Australia chief economist Saul Eslake, the country's car and car components manufacturing industry ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... December housing finance data and the residential property price indexes for the December quarter. The National Australia Bank's monthly business survey for January is also due out. In equities news, Cochlear and Bradken are expected to post first half ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
... $36.47, Rio Tinto had lifted $1.01 to $66.97 while iron ore miner Fortescue was five cents higher at $5.65. The Commonwealth Bank was up 74 cents to $74.26 while Westpac had gained 40 cents to $31.65, ANZ was 36 cents higher at $29.81 and National Australia ...