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Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
... for the full year and its full year distribution per security would be 24 cents. Both the mining giants and the four major banks were mixed. BHP Billiton was 23 cents higher at $35.78, Rio Tinto was 41 cents down at $65.94 and Fortescue Metals was steady ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... cent lower at $35.10, Rio Tinto fell 1.2 per to $65.85 and Fortescue Metals was down 1.44 per cent at $5.83. The four major banks were mostly higher. The Commonwealth Bank was up 11 cents to $51.06, ANZ rose 11 cents to $23.57 and Westpac was 10 cents ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
... cents to $35.38, Rio Tinto was up eight cents to $66.71 and Fortescue Metals was down three cents to $5.95. The four major banks were also mixed. The Commonwealth Bank was up six cents to $51.00, ANZ was up 11 cents to $23.56 and Westpac was up five ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2012
... conditions would likely continue. Fairfax's shares fell 0.5 cents to 83 cents by 1040 AEDT. At 1040 AEDT, the four major banks were mixed. Commonwealth Bank Australia rose two cents to $49.66, the National Australia Bank was down 10 cents to $23.35 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... 34 cents at $69.73. Fortescue Metals rose eight cents to $4.90, and BlueScope Steel added $2.50 to $79.50. The four major banks were up by between 0.4 per cent and one per cent with ANZ rising the most with a 20 cent gain to $20.90. Making news, fertiliser ...

Dividends boom as capital returned to investors

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2011
... dividend and high value indexes and found the biggest dividend payouts were mining and retail companies and the four major banks. "In this period of lower growth forecasts and heightened volatility, companies are taking the prudent approach and returning ...

ANZ shows increased profit and deposit growth

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... about the reliance of Australia's Big Four banks on raising capital from offshore wholesale debt markets. All four major banks face a possible one-notch ratings downgrade by Standard & Poor's later this year after it implements a new criteria for rating ...

Bank stocks rise on Greek confidence

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... that scenario if it unfolded," he said. "We don't' see that by itself as a reason to change the outlook for the four major banks under the current rating criteria." S&P is reviewing its ratings methods and will implement a new criteria in the fourth ...

Bendigo finds safe harbour from wholesale storm in retail deposits

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... our rating so... a very small fraction of our wholesale funding is sourced overseas." By contrast, Australia's four major banks source about 40 per cent of their wholesale debt funding offshore where the Greek crisis is driving up the cost of money. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2011
... weakness in the materials, but most of the points are coming out of the (consumer) staples and energy sectors." The four major banks were higher at noon. Westpac was up 21 cents, around one per cent, at $22.76, ANZ was 17 cents higher at $23.50, Commonwealth ...