National Australia Bank shares have halted trading ... an announcement due re Nippon Life maybe buying into their life insurance business

Via Australian Financial Review:

  • National Australia Bank has been placed in a trading halt
  • Reports that Nippon Life will buy about 80 per cent of the bank's life insurance business for 220 billion yen ($2.5 billion AUD)
  • Japanese news outlet Yomiuri reported Nippon would own about 80 per cent of the unit according to Bloomberg

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By the time news like this hits the press its often old news, so don't go crazy buying the AUD/JPY here