Finance News - March 25th ASX 200 weekly wrap: BHP, Rio Tinto, CSL & Aristocrat Leisure higher Rallies from the big miners and health care stocks helped lift the Australian share market last week. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.33% to 6,195 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index gained 0.25% to close...
Finance News - March 18th BOQ's rate cuts: 'New lending becomes competitive in flat housing market' The Bank of Queensland has rolled out a number of new home loan discounts that will deliver small rate cuts for some existing customers. From today, the bank has cut rates across its discounted two and three-year fixed standard...
Finance News - March 18th ASX 200 weekly wrap: ANZ, Westpac, CBA & BHP down Weakness across the major banks and some heavyweight health stocks contributed to the Australian share market's falls last week. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 dropped 0.45% to 6,175 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index fell 0.35%...
Finance News - March 14th Bendigo Bank is back: "This was not a cyber attack" Bendigo Bank says its online banking is back up and running after an "unexpected outage" had left some customers out of pocket for more than 24 hours. The bank said on Twitter that the blackout was...
Finance News - March 13th Bendigo Bank network outage leaves customers under the pump Bendigo Bank says its online banking is down due to an "unexpected outage", leaving some customers unable to pay for fuel at the petrol station. Just after 5am today, the bank told customers its ebanking services were unavailable...
Finance News - March 13th Basic Private Health Cover: What is Included? The Federal Government has introduced a new tiered system of private hospital insurance which will begin rolling out from 1 April, 2019. Under this new system health funds will have to classify hospital policies into four tiers...
Finance News - March 11th ASX 200 weekly wrap: Woolworths, CSL & Telstra shares higher The share market edged higher last week thanks partly to strength from major retail and health stocks, despite overseas markets falling on global growth concerns. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.19% to 6,204 points, while the...
Finance News - March 6th Bronze Private Health Cover: What do I need to know? The Federal Government has introduced a new tiered system of private hospital insurance which will begin rolling out from 1 April, 2019. Under this new system health funds will have to classify hospital policies into four tiers...
Finance News - March 5th Westpac, Suncorp, ING move interest rates while RBA stays steady The Reserve Bank is content with keeping the cash rate on hold, in contrary to the busy mortgage market where a flurry of lenders have been recently lifting and cutting home loan interest rates. The RBA board...
Finance News - March 4th ASX 200 weekly wrap: Telstra, Afterpay, BHP, Wesfarmers on the move The local share market closed higher last week, thanks mainly to gains across the health care, financials and retail-related consumer discretionary sectors. In the final week of the February reporting season, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 finished...