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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
... price index was down ten points at 5,723. In economic news today, the Reserve Bank holds its monthly board meeting on interest rates, but economists say rates are likely to stay on hold at 7.25 per cent. All eyes will be on the accompanying statement ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2008
... tone is relatively positive at the moment but we still got a few things out (this week), such as the RBA (decision on interest rates). "I think there will be some hard-nosed comments about inflation which will not be good for equity markets." Earlier ...

Retail spending is not slowing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2008
... strength of the figures prompted Westpac chief executive officer Gail Kelly last week to say it may be 18 months before interest rate begin to fall. Reinforcing the trend, the just-released TD Securities-Melbourne Institute Monthly Inflation Gauge jumped ...

Debt trumps terrorism as top threat

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2008
... Federal Government and perhaps a shifting of public debate to more domestic issues such as workforce participation and interest rates," said Andrew Barkla, Unisys Asia Pacific vice president and general manager. Established in June 2006, the Unisys Security ...

130/30 demand drops

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
US investor interest in 130/30 equity strategies have noticeably waned in the six month period by the end of March - a reversal of a trend that pervaded for the most part of the last two years. Figures from US-based Pensions & Investments indicated ...

TSG expands dealer group

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
... environment," he said. Mark Euvrard, TSG chief executive, said the group's independence and flexible framework was gaining interest and momentum. "The TSG support team works closely with our advisers to design and implement their own personal fee and ...

Kelly plans changes at Westpac

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
... up eight per cent. The bank's return on equity slipped from 23.6 per cent in March last year to 22.7 per cent. The net interest margin was down 20 basis points from 2.25 to 2.05 per cent. Net operating income was up 12 per cent to $5.4 billion and expenses ...

Money for Living practice is not RM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2008
... mortgage, a retiree maintains ownership of their home at all times and no repayments are required during the loan term with interest and fees rolled up into the loan balance. The reverse mortgage loan only becomes repayable once all borrowers have died ...

BNY Mellon to double corp trust share

... governments to provide various services including servicing and maintaining the debt issue, processing principal and interest payments for investors and representing investors in defaults. Michelle Baltazar

US dollar slips after Federal Reserve cuts key interest rate

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2008
The US dollar slipped today after the Federal Reserve announced it cut a key interest rate by a quarter-point, a move that investors had anticipated. Markets had also expected the Fed to signal a pause in its rate-cutting campaign to combat the growing ...