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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
... the last month and were due for a (retreat)," he said, adding that the market was not responding as negatively to offshore bank bailouts. On Sunday, Spain's government and the Bank of Spain began to rescue major Spanish lender Caja Castilla La Mancha ...

Alleron focuses on cash and mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
Alleron Investment Management chief executive, Barry Littler is banking on the firm's $5 million in capital reserves and a $1 billion mandate pipeline to see the firm through the financial crisis. Littler said the firm's $5 million capital reserves ...

Back to the drawing board

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
Crrr...unch! That's the sound of General Motors and Chrysler getting closer to becoming junk as the US government asks them to go back to the drawing board. The greed of missing out on the budding equity market rally was quickly replaced by fear of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
... the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was down 57 points at 3,559. In economic news on Tuesday, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) deputy governor Ric Battellino addresses the Urban Development Institute of Australia's national conference. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2009
... don't expect the market to be lower than this with the market getting a little support from Westpac and Rio." Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) says its wholly owned bank subsidiary Bankwest will cut 400 jobs from its workforce due to the economic ...

Bankwest cuts 400 staff

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2009
Commonwealth Bank of Australia subsidiary, Bankwest, is to shed around 400 employees from the bank's operations but confirms the financial planning arm will not be affected. The bank is planning on making 250 redundancies in Western Australia and 150 ...

Westpac account promotion misleading

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2009

Bonus hocus pocus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2009
... the system and satisfy our greed.' Barely a day has passed when, Saturday morning, Bloomberg splashed out this news item: 'Bank of America Corp. plans to increase some investment bankers' salaries by as much as 70 percent following the takeover earlier ...

China and India investment themes remain: Actis

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2009
Chinese consumer good producers and Indian finance companies are some of the best emerging market private equity opportunities this year, according to specialist private equity firm. After raising almost more than A$4 billion in investments last year ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2009
... Wall Street again overnight," he said. "The banks are mixed, certainly there have been some positive moves with Commonwealth Bank after their update. "We've had a very good week so it seems people might be happy to consolidate that move over the week ...