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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
... paying $US100 a share for Burlington Northern Santa Fe in a deal valuing the railroad at $US34 billion ($A37.57 billion), lending some support to the market. But investors still are on edge about unemployment and the stability of major financial firms ...

S&G settles claims for CBA Storm clients

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2009
... & Gordon practice group leader, said each claim had been assessed on its merits and had taken into account the bank's lending practices at the time of the loan. "During the settlement negotiations we have concentrated on the individual circumstances ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2009
... stock markets ended mixed despite some encouraging company reports after new data showed falls in eurozone private sector lending and US consumer confidence. In London, the stock market was helped by better-than-expected results from British oil giant ...

ING to divest insurance and investments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
... Interadvies banking arm, including Westland Utrecht and the mortgage activities of Nationale-Nederlanden, and the consumer lending portfolio of ING Retail. The combined business has a balance sheet of $60 billion (EUR 37 billion), with around 200,000 ...

Pushing on a string

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009

Budget, what budget?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
... 'mum-and-dad' bank, they are also a generation that has created the 'mates' bank, with 87 per cent of Gen Yers borrowing and lending money fromt heir friends to the total of more than $2.6 billion a year. Nearly two-thirds of them shout their friends ...

What China wants China gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
... parts of the globe were still reluctant to extend credit, Chinese authorities only have to utter the word 'lend' and off a-lending its banks went. Lending jumped by 34.2 per cent in the year to September from only 14.6 per cent in the comparable period. ...

Sentry buys AFG Financial Planning

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
... advice. Through its member network, AFG manages over $50 billion in mortgage finance representing over 10 per cent of home lending in Australia. Earlier this year, AFG conducted a comprehensive review of its operations and strategic future direction ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
... index contract was 34 points higher at 4783. In economic news on Monday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases lending finance data for August. Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan will address the Australian Business Economists with a speech entitled ...

Rejoice for rates have risen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2009
... about? Malcolm Turnbull's criticism that the Government stimulated the economy too much that it has popped with a rise in lending rates must have gotten to him. But isn't it better to err - if indeed this is an error - on the side of growth, particularly ...