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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... Tuesday, the National Australia Bank business survey for March is released. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) lending finance data for February is due. In company news, Macquarie Media Group stapled securityholders extraordinary general meeting ...

Westpac lends aid to financial counsellors and SMEs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
... financial counselling organisations and expand its financial hardship program, Assist, into small-to-medium (SME) business lending. Westpac Group chief Gail Kelly said the $1 million in funding would be used to provide training for additional counsellors ...

CVC the preferred buyer of iShares

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
... reach a satisfactory conclusion, it would lead to a sale of Barclays iShares business without the attributable securities lending business," according to the statement. Earlier speculation assumed the sale of both iShares and securities lending. A further ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
... failed to rule out in a weekend interview the possibility that some US banks may need more government funds to get them lending again. The Dow Jones Industrial Average settled down 254.16 points, or 3.27 per cent, to 7,522.02. The broader Standard & ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... week with an announcement of plans to buy hundreds of billions of dollars worth of debt securities in hopes of reviving lending. Stocks initially jumped on Wednesday when the plans were announced but then fell Thursday and Friday as investors became ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... up 26 points at 3,363. On the economic front on Monday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases figures on lending finance for January. On Friday, the Australian stock market closed more than three per cent stronger after financial stocks ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... Electric Co's credit rating. Standard & Poor's lowered GE's top rating one notch because of problems at the conglomerate's lending arm, but indicated it was not eying another downgrade. Many investors had expected deeper cuts for GE, the oldest member ...

NAB gambles on its IFS model

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... must be scratching their heads after yesterday's strategy briefing from new chief executive Cameron Clyne. The corporate lending business will move out of the institutional division, nabCapital, and into the regional business banking divisions. NabCapital ...

Savings paradox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
... in the economy is reduced. Extending this further, the reduction in aggregate savings leads to less funds available for lending for capital and/or financial investment. Given the uncertainty in both our individual and collective futures, the natural ...

Let them have soup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... cent year-on-year while continuing claims jumped 81.8 per cent. The deterioration in the US labour market and tighter lending standards not surprisingly are continuing to pressure the housing sector. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported that ...