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Market wrap - afternoon

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... dropped 20 cents to $54.28. In economic news on Tuesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics is due to release July's lending finance figures, while the National Australia Bank's monthly business survey for August is due out. Local national turnover ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... was down nine points at 4,322. In economic news on Tuesday, the Austrailan Bureau of Statistics is due to release July's lending finance figures, while the National Australia Bank's monthly business survey for August is due out. No major equities news ...

Write-down clouds Bendigo's 43% profit tumble

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... $195 million profit was affected by a $95 million write-off of goodwill in December 2011, after declines in its margin lending portfolio and in the value of its wealth division. The sale of subordinate notes, and a recent offloading of a 7.8% stake in ...

Greens plan to fell Westpac-backed logging

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... addition to reducing loans to loggers over the past three years by more than two thirds, it intends to further reduce lending in the Solomon Islands forestry industry. Rhiannon however, said that Vella Lavella is a new project, the support of which is ...

Swan talks up bank reforms for competition

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... note however, the Treasurer said that since December 2010 smaller banks have captured an estimated $17.7 billion in home lending business from the big banks with non-major banks growing home lending at almost three times the rate of their bigger rivals ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... fell 0.61 per cent at 3,435.62 points. In economic news on Monday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics is due to release lending finance for June. In equities news, Newcrest Mining shares rose 67 cents, or 2.75 per cent, to $25.00 after its full year ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... contract was up 17 points at 4,272. In economic news on Monday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics is due to release lending finance for June. In equities news, Newcrest Mining, UGL and Downer EDI are all due to post full year results, while James Hardie ...

Doing our bit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... decline in June. Looks like some producers are making lotsa yumcha, ey? This might be part of the reason for the fall in new lending to US$85.2 billion in July from US$145.1 in the previous month. The other part, of course, is that past tightening efforts ...

Super to eclipse banks as primary lender: Cooper

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... Superannuation funds may have more money to lend than banks in under a decade, and could play a larger role in corporate lending than the corporate bond market, said Jeremy Cooper, architect of the government's Cooper Review. He expects banks, currently ...

Wen's visible hand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
... controls." Got that? Control. We don't have to go so far back to see how much control Wen's visible hand has. China's new bank lending increased to 919.8 billion yuan (US$144 billion) in June, up from 793.2 billion yuan in May, up from 681.8 in April ...