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Now that's challenging

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
... economies have every right to be worried now that China's command economy is commanding its businesses to slow down on lending. Who do they turn to now? But like I said early in the New Year, what China wants, China gets. And it wants 10 per cent growth ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
... the banking sector. Markets already had started falling in mid-week after reports that China was taking action to reduce lending to rein in inflation. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell two per cent and the FTSE slumped 1.58 per cent. Commodities ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... lower at noon but had improved from a weak start following sharp falls on Wall Street on China's decision to curb bank lending in January. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 19.1 points, or 0.39 per cent, to 4,849.1 points, while the ...

ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)? Wall Street's attention focused somewhere else. Last night, it was news of China's lending restrictions that got its goose. China spooked the bejesus out of investors again on reports that Beijing ordered lending ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... market closed slightly higher, pulled back from earlier strong gains by reports that China was putting the brakes on new lending. The quieter finish contrasted with an earlier surge on the back of a better than expected December quarter production report ...

iPhone app targets home hunters

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
... their dream home while at an auction or inspection, find suburbs where they can afford to buy and even ask for a St.George lending expert to contact them at a specific time with more information," said Travis Tyler, St.George Bank's head of eDistribution ...

Bonds need a double dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
... and invest them in higher yielding long-term Treasuries. This helps re-liquify the banking system, and ultimately offer lending institutions a safety cushion against potential defaults and/or the means to again increase their lending activity. The bottomline ...

Netwealth buys $700m FUA planning firm Bridgeport

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
... Bridgeport. "[Bridgeport] is very much process driven and a very clean business that had less than a million dollars of margin lending and less than a million dollars of agri [business]. It's a very conservative business that has been well managed," ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
... contract was 50 points lower at 4,841. In economics news on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics will release lending finance data for November. In Australia on Tuesday, the share market was dragged one per cent lower as profit-takers swooped ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... Ltd hold their annual general meeting. In economics news on Monday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) publishes lending finance data for October at 1130 AEDT. On Friday, the Australian share market closed higher, ending a run of four straight ...