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A sign from the holy spirit?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
id the holy spirit just give us a sign? Nah Virgina, I'm speak not of the one-third of the 'Holy Trinity' that is central to the Christian faith but the bank named after it in Portugal - Banco Espiritu Santo. Trading in scripts and bonds issued by Portugal's ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on Wall Street after a solid kickoff to the US earnings season from Alcoa and Federal Reserve minutes that signalled low interest rates for a while longer. At 0805 AEST on Thursday, the ...

Cbus defends member contact sharing policy

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
Cbus has defended its policy of releasing members' details to 'sponsoring organisations' in order to chase up arrears, following yesterday's Royal Commission hearing into the improper release of members' contact details. In yesterday's hearing in Melbourne ...

BNP Paribas board approves $9bn fine

AFP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
BNP Paribas's board of directors has approved a settlement with US authorities to pay a record $US9 billion ($A9.74 billion) fine to avoid being tried for violating US embargoes. The agreement is due to be announced after markets close at the New York ...

New compass needed for global economy: BIS

NATHALIE OLOF-ORS, AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
Countries must dramatically rethink strategies for avoiding and dealing with financial crises, the Bank for International Settlements says, urging far more focus on fighting debt. The Swiss-based BIS -- dubbed the central bankers' central bank -- has ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
The share market was slightly weaker at noon after falls on Wall Street overnight and poor spending data in the US provided negative leads. A higher iron ore price has given some miners a boost, while energy, telecommunications and utilities are doing ...

James knows when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
Jumpin' Jiminy Cricket Batman! The US Federal Reserve will begin to lift interest rates soon - that is, sooner than everyone in the planet expects. Bullard of bull (dropping?). Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said so in his ...

Wall Street is in a spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
Wall Street down... on Iraq... on escalating Middle East tensions... Sounds about quite right 'eh Virginia? After all, an escalation of conflict in the land of the sand dunes would lift the price of what's underneath those sand dunes - oil. This, in ...

Good or bad, it's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... maybe not, we hear the familiar refrain (we continue to hear from central bankers) from Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Kuroda san. He told the Japan Association of Corporate Executives that the BOJ will continue to "pursue monetary policy management on ...

BNP, US prosecutors near $US9bn settlement

AFP  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
BNP Paribas has neared a deal with US prosecutors that would see the French bank pay $US8 billion to $US9 billion and accept other punitive measures for violating American sanctions, The Wall Street Journal reports. US regulators and BNP Paribas executives ...