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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... share, to $US2.18. Both measures handily beat forecasts, and the company further stirred buyers with a $US5 billion share buyback plan. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets have closed up, lifted by the European Central Bank's announcement that it would ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... house prices figures for June and July. In equities news, Woodside Petroleum holds its general meeting to vote on the buyback of shares from Royal Dutch Shell and Resmed is expected to post its financial results. The Australian market on Thursday, continued ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... stocks lost 52 cents to $42.36 as the company looks like it may not garner enough support for its planned $US2.7 billion buyback in Friday's shareholder vote. Origin Energy gained five cents to $14.30 ahead of its quarterly production report. KEY FACTS ...

Morningstar launches stewardship ratings in Australia

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... specific factors such as financial leverage, investment strategy, investment timing and valuation, dividend and share buyback policies, execution, compensation, related party transactions, and accounting practices. "The stewardship rating enables Australian ...

Dealer group Infocus buys MLC shares, becomes independent

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... independently owned. Bucking rumours that the group was looking for an institutional parent, Infocus has completed a share buyback, taking the remaining 25% stake from National Australia Bank's wealth division. It will now focus on acquiring more financial ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013
... Co. jumped 2.4 per cent after chief financial officer Jay Rasulo said that the entertainment giant plans a huge share buyback in 2014 that could amount to as much as $US8 billion. Women's sport apparel chain Lululemon Athletica dropped 5.4 per cent after ...

Annuity sales reinforce solid Challenger result

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2013
... continued. After buying back 14 million shares during the financial year, Challenger announced that it would continue its buyback policy in 2014. As at 30 June 2013, Challenger held $1.1 billion more capital and cash than APRA's current required mini ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
Australian shares have opened half a percentage point weaker as falling commodity prices hit mining stocks, and banking shares rally. The local market has followed Wall Street lower, where the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the broad-based S&P 500 and ...

CFS FirstWrap enhances corporate actions feature

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
Colonial First State (CFS) will be adding new functionality features to its FirstWrap platform in May. The corporate actions capability will be enhanced to allow advisers to automatically handle how their clients respond to announcements such as rights ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
... without reaching a deal on a European-wide banking union. Sentiment early in the session had been boosted by a Greek debt buyback program and the approval by eurozone finance ministers of a bailout for Spain's troubled banks. But at the close, London's ...