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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 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... market showed a positive reaction to the launch of a new effort by the Federal Reserve and Treasury to boost consumer lending with $US200 billion to buy up securities linked to various types of loans and credit cards. But some said Federal Reserve chairman ...

APRA outlines priorities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
... strong capital buffers above the minimum requirements that could be used in a downturn to insulate banks and encourage lending. While APRA is not a member of the Basel Committee it does support a single global approach to capital requirements for banking ...

IBM Cognos measures credit risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... line of sight" to every business unit. For example, most retail banks receive data from numerous sources - their mortgage lending unit, credit card business and from their traditional banking arm. They may have also inherited data following mergers and ...

Bell profit hit by bad markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... debt in the core broking business. Bell Potter Capital recorded strong revenue growth from the firm's cash and margin lending products and the margin book is conservatively managed with an average gearing of 44 per cent. And Bell Financial Group purchase ...