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Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... expected to lift its gross written premium by up to 20 per cent in the 2015 fiscal year. Shares in fellow insurance giant QBE were in a trading halt as it carries out a share placement. QBE announced the $810 million share placement, along with the float ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... Locally, earnings seasons continues. The world largest miner, BHP Billiton reports its full year results and insurance giant QBE releases its half year earnings. Steel and mining group Arrium, Oil Search and Packaging business Amcor also release their ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... morning. Rio Tinto put on 74 cents to $66.49, BHP gained 10 cents to $39.16 and Fortescue was up 10.5 cents at $4.965. Insurer QBE bounced back after having revised its group profit margin downwards on Tuesday. It's lifted 34 cents, or 3.22 per cent ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
The Australian share market is trading flat, though marked by a plunge in the shares of insurer QBE. Lonsec senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said the local bourse was "as flat as a tack". He said overseas leads had been okay, but a profit downgrade ...

World Bank issues Kangaroo Green Bond

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
... Management, AMP Capital, Australian Ethical Investment Ltd, Colonial First State Global Asset Management, Local Government Super and QBE Insurance Group Ltd. The Green Bond is intended to help those countries likely to be hit hardest by climate change ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... Statistics is due to release February building approvals data, as well as job vacancies for the same month. In equities news, QBE Insurance Group has its annual general meeting slated for Sydney. BHP Billiton president of coal Dean Dalla Valle is scheduled ...

QBE invests in Invesco property fund

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
QBE Insurance Group (QBE) has invested into Invesco's North American Core Direct Property Fund, which invests exclusively in North American direct property assets. While Invesco would not reveal the amount of the investment, a spokesperson said that ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... anxiety about the strength of the world's second-biggest economy. In Tuesday morning's local corporate earnings results, insurer QBE shares were up 37 cents, or 3.18 per cent, at $12.02 after it posted a $US254 million ($A282.00 million) full year loss ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... contract was up 27 points at 5,450. No major local economic news is expected on Tuesday. In equities news, Oil Search and QBE Insurance are expected to post full year results, while AV Jennings, AWE, Ramsay Health Care, Cabcharge, and Charter Hall Group ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
... like manner and I might say the performance hasn't been too bad... we're only down by a cigarette paper." Insurance giant QBE has also recovered, adding 29.5 cents or 2.73 per cent to $11.115, a day after having its credit rating downgraded in the wake ...