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Virgin home loan spices up mortgage lending

... market after Virgin Money launched its much-anticipated home loan product which promises a low 6.59 per cent variable interest rate, a 'repayment holiday' option and savings of over $25,000. Virgin Money shook the banking industry three years ago with ...

Weekly economic round-up

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will decide to keep interest rates steady at 5.5 per cent after its Board meets to deliberate on monetary policy tomorrow. Last week's domestic data releases has ensured this outcome and increased the probability ...

FPA principles push fee transparency to highest levels ever

... compare what they are paying and what they are getting." The principles also try to address the issue of conflict of interest by prescribing due diligence procedures and separate corporate governance arrangements with any related financial services provider. ...

Daily economic update

The European Central Bank (ECB) raised its benchmark interest rate overnight to 2.5 per cent from 2.25 per cent. The latest move marks the second rate hike in three months. At a press conference following its decision, ECB President Jean Claude Trichet ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2006
... Treasury bond yields rose, while same-store retail sales for February disappointed the market. Concern that benchmark interest rates may rise further sent bond yields up, pressuring bank stocks like Citigroup Inc.and JPMorgan Chase & Co. On the corporate ...

Daily Economic Update

... above their level in the same period in 2004. The continued weakness in the property market should keep the RBA off the interest rate hike trigger for a while longer, notwithstanding the latest retail sales report indicating that Australian consumers ...

Daily Economic Update

... economy grew by a lower-than-expected 0.5 per cent in the December quarter - boosting expectations of continued steady interest rates in the near term. This followed an upwardly revised 0.3 per cent increased in the previous quarter but marks the 14th ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2006
... to five-year highs in the previous session. The Hang Seng index fell 31.41 points to 15,918.48. WELLINGTON - Renewed interest in Telecom and firm offshore markets buoyed the New Zealand sharemarket today. The benchmark NZSX-50 gross index rose 35.85 ...

Daily economic update

... seems to be preparing to press the rate hike button. Prime Minister Koizumi said the central bank should remove the zero interest rate policy as it sees fit. This reverses earlier jawboning urging the Bank of Japan (BoJ) to keep policy unchanged removing ...

Macquarie property fund touts JV in the OC

Macquarie Office Trust (MOF), a listed property fund of Macquarie Bank, has touted a new joint venture with Californian property group, Maguire Properties, that they say will drive future growth from California. While MOF's 2005 half year results to ...