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Non-bank lender completes public securitisation

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
An Australian non-bank lender yesterday completed a public securitisation issue using prime loans originated by GE Capital. Pepper, a financial services provider specialising in domestic and commercial property, said the issue was well supported by ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... Monetary Policy. In equities news, Macmahon Holdings is due to hold its annual general meeting. Also, special adviser to the prime minister and NAB board member Dr Ken Henry is due to give the keynote speech at the Australian Sustainability Conference ...

Market wrap Early AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... Greek exchange's key index fell by five per cent however, with the banking stocks sub-index plunging by 11.7 per cent. Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has said the coffers in Athens will run dry on November 16 unless his country receives the next ...

Financial services outstrip mining: CommSec

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... China and subsequent stimulus measures are likely to prop up demand. Furthermore, the rise of the Chinese middle class and Prime Minister Julia Gillard's push more engagement with the 'Asian century' should further advance trade with the East. "Our relationship ...

Future Fund 'under-resourced' on climate risks

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
... be unable to sell any stranded assets and so it must start planning now." "Australia's retirees cannot afford another sub-prime crisis," he added. John Connor, CEO of The Climate Institute, which operates AODP in Australia, added that as a carbon and ...

Failure is not an option

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... 7.5%, respectively, because of high inflation, slowing consumption and its huge fiscal deficit. That may be so but Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's administration and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) are now doing something about these challenges. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... cents to $US49.50. The Nasdaq composite rose 6.51 points to 3,120.04. Indexes took a turn lower at midday after Spain's prime minister said that he's not preparing a request for a bailout loan. Traders have been anticipating that the Spanish government ...

Spanish fly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... Would they, would they not... request for a bailout? The answer is crucial for investors but is in conflict with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's political fortune and his less than 10-month old government. This is because it's only after Spain ...

Green lights on green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... need only about a,-60 bil to recapitalise (less than the a,-100 bil that's at the ready for when begs). Good luck to you Prime Minister Rajoy or it'll be goodbye. Just ask Bloomberg. Its headline says it all, "Euro-Region Unemployment Rate Rises to Record ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... billion) in cutbacks. The expected spending cuts have triggered mass demonstrations in the debt-stricken country. Spanish Prime Mariano Rajoy was quoted, in the Wall Street Journal, as saying that if Spain's borrowing costs were "too high for too long" ...