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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013
... developments," he said. The content of those releases was likely to drive the market's direction on Wednesday, he said. The Reserve Bank of Australia has an annual target range for inflation of between two and three per cent so the CPI figures, due at ...

Scam artists impersonate ASIC and MoneySmart

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013
... unsuspecting consumers that their banks, credit unions, or building societies have overcharged them, and requesting their bank details. "We suspect this is a follow-up scam intended to trick you into providing your personal details," Senior Leader, Stakeholder ...

Fake press release activist faces 10 years in jail

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013
An environmental activist who issued a fake ANZ Bank press release and caused a crash in Whitehaven Coal's share price faces 10 years in prison. On 7 January 2013, Jonathan Moylan sent out a false media release which said ANZ Bank had pulled its $1.2 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... cents at $34.26, although Rio Tinto was down 23 cents at $56.32. Meanwhile, the big four banks were higher, with Commonwealth Bank up 14 cents to $72.02, ANZ gaining 14 cents to $29.05, National Australia Bank 14 cents higher at $30.55 and Westpac lifting ...

The good, the good and the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... 6.0% floor on one-year loans, allowing banks to set their own lending rates. Markets previously expected the Chinese central bank to gradually lower the floor on lending rates. But nah! It just went ahead and scrapped it altogether. Ahhh...the beauty ...

Generation Y busts SMSF age myth

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... 30 are setting up - or plan to set up - self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs), according to a new study by Macquarie Bank and the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA). The study found that 8.1% of Australia's adult population intend ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... rebounds from Friday's losses. IG market strategist Chris Weston said the market received a boost from news China's central bank will give lenders more control to set interest rates. The People's Bank of China on Friday night (AEST) said banks would ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... to 1,992.65. Global equities rose this week after Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke told lawmakers in Washington that the bank's $US85 billion-a-month bond-buying scheme would be kept in place as long as the economy needed it. WELLINGTON - The NZX 50 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... passengers had increased three per cent in the first half of calendar 2013. The big four banks were higher, with the Commonwealth Bank up 19 cents to $71.93, ANZ 15 cents higher at $29.10, NAB lifting eight cents to $30.42, and Westpac gaining five cents ...

ASIC seeks to wind up of LM mortgage income fund

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... of investors and wishes to see the matter resolved as soon as possible," he said. Before this week's proceedings Deutsche Bank, a secured creditor of the FMIF, appointed McGrathNicol as receiver of the FMIF. If appointed, ASIC proposes that the incoming ...