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Dubai to swoop in bad market

MICHAEL HOBBS | WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008

... financial crisis will strengthen the United Arab Emirates' position as an economic and investment hub. Speaking at the Financial Times /Dubai International Financial Centre World Financial Centre Summit, Omar Bin Sulaiman, Dubai International Financial ...

HBOS surrenders to Lloyds TSB

WWW.THESHEET.COM | THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008

... takeover of HBOS. Britain's government and Financial Services Authority are encouraging the merger, according to BBC, Financial Times and subsequent reports, and they will act to ensure that competition laws will not stand in the way of a merger. No ...

Commodities investors nervous about inflation

ALEX DUNNIN | MONDAY, 23 JUN 2008

... demand will continue to translate into high share prices and protect them to insulate them against inflation. The Financial Times reported over the weekend that research from share registry group Capita shows private investors to be adjusting down their ...

India to ban food futures

ALEX DUNNIN | TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008

... ban on food futures. The comments by the Indian government's finance minister, P Chidambaram, reported in the Financial Times, raise equal fears that it might set back the development of India's financial markets. The move illustrates how seriously the ...

More than two years' investment bank profits lost

WWW.THESHEET.COM | WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008

... the losses for investment banks worse than the junk bond crisis in 1989/90 in terms of severity. Drawing on the Financial Times account of the study, investment banking revenues will fall 20 per cent this year. Total revenues, including markdowns, are ...

Bear Stearns a 'reasonable risk': JPMorgan

... Stearns' scale of fixed income business and more limited international scope. Meanwhile, London-based newspaper The Financial Times has reported that JPMorgan is expected to incur a US$6 billion one-off charge for potential litigation and to manage Bear's ...

China acts on climate change

MICHAEL HOBBS | MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007

... country's carbon trading to invest in climate change projects. The fund is the first of its kind, according to Financial Times, and follows the fact that 60 per cent of world's carbon reduction projects are in China. Xie Zhenhua, deputy director of the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP | FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2007

... of England... due to losses related to US sub-prime woes," RBC senior currency strategist Sue Trinh said. The Financial Times reported that the UK's fourth-largest home lender would be given a short-term credit line from the UK Financial Services Authority ...

Economic round up: savings follow interest rates

SUZY MAC | FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2007

... consumers shouldering a record debt of just over A$3 trillion. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling told the Financial Times that he is concerned that Britons who took out two-year fixed rate mortgages in 2005 at 4.5 per cent, will be ill prepared ...

Door opens on IFRS - or is it the floodgates?

WWW.THESHEET.COM | MONDAY, 16 JAN 2006

... Reporting Standards and agreed to re-open a debate on some of the basics of financial reporting, according to the UK Financial Times. Tom Jones, vice-chairman of the IASB, told the newspaper that standards-setters were preparing for a public debate about ...

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Australian Unity to shed 195 roles

MATTHEW WAI

Australian Unity is reducing its workforce by 195 positions due to underperformance stemming from delays in government support for its Home Health platform and the integration of several businesses.

Count shutters limited-advice business, slips in size ranking

MATTHEW WAI

Count Financial has reportedly wound up its restricted SMSF/limited-advice service, losing some 26 advisers on the Financial Adviser Register, latest data shows.

First Super recruits head of investments from Prime Super

MATTHEW WAI

First Super has appointed a new head of investments, replacing Chris Artis, who was in the position for the past three months on an interim basis.

BMO eyes Euroz Hartleys' capital markets business

KARREN VERGARA

Euroz Hartleys confirmed it is in discussions with Canada's BMO Financial Group for a potential sale of its capital markets business for $145 million.

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