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A stock market rally could get Obama over the line

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
... Act (Obamacare) with companies contracted to supply Medicare (for the elderly) and Medicaid (for the poor) adversely affected. While pharmaceuticals would be negatively impacted due to less medically insured people, private health companies would likely ...

Write-down clouds Bendigo's 43% profit tumble

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... ship, after announcing a 43% decline in full-year profit this morning. The bank said that its $195 million profit was affected by a $95 million write-off of goodwill in December 2011, after declines in its margin lending portfolio and in the value of ...

China FDI flow slows, and?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... all, financial markets took the fresh bad news on their stride. Major equity markets in the Asian timezone - those most affected by a harder than expected slowing in China - even rose strongly. The S&P/AX 200 index jumped by 1.14%, the Nikkei-225 closed ...

AFMA urges ASIC to focus on market risk

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... quality impact. "ASIC should look to empirical work, such as that done by AFMA, to look to where price formation may be affected by the migration of liquidity to the dark. Our work suggests this may be for stocks that already have more marginal price ...

Vision Super issues shortfall liability notices

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012
... (MAV) currently working to negotiate with state and Commonwealth authorities to obtain favourable borrowing rates for affected authorities needing to avail themselves of the program to meet their obligations. Rob Spence, who is chairman of both MAV and ...

Known knowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... much losses banks and financial institutions carried on their books - and how many banks and financial institutions were affected, when no one knew how deep the economic recession would be and whether or not the powers that be would have the will and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... slumped 2.20 per cent at 6,606.09 points and Paris's CAC 40 lost 2.68 per cent at 3,232.46 points. Madrid was the worst affected, dropping 5.16 per cent after it had been especially hoped there would be some ECB measure to help Spain cut its borrowing ...

AGEST bungle isolated: BNP Paribas

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... the miscalculation of AGEST Super returns reported yesterday was an isolated incident. AGEST Super recently wrote to affected members advising them that they have either been under or over paid - after custodian BNP Paribas miscalculated returns. The ...

AGEST bungles returns

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
... with equity among members," said Cath Bowtell, AGEST Super chief executive. The Australian equities option was the worst affected, after it was over credited by around 200 basis points. While obviously an issue, Bowtell said that the mistake needed to ...

Food is the new Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2012
... This would find their way into consumers' grocery baskets. That means rising inflation. Emerging markets would be more affected because of the greater allocation of food - 40% to 60% -- on their household budgets. Apart from cutting into households' ...