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Sober and sombre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
... is expected to follow Wall Street's overnight lead despite yesterday's announcement of a A$10.4 billion fiscal boost by Prime Minister Rudd, aimed to 'deal with tough times.' The bulk of the package will be used to give a one-off bonus payment to pensioners ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
... RiverCity Motorway hold their annual general meetings. Australia Post releases annual results. Creditors of stockbroker Opes Prime attend a meeting in Melbourne. Yesterday, the Australian share market ended almost four per cent higher in its best two-day ...

ANZ to become top four bank in Vietnam

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
... Vietnam after receiving a licence of incorporation from the State Bank of Vietnam. The landmark move was witnessed by Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who both attended the presentation of the licence to ...

Fortis bank $19.5bn bail-out 'stabilises' FIA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... rescue package to save the bank from following the collapse of its US banking counterparts such as Lehman Brothers. Belgium's Prime Minister Yves Leterme also said in international media reports that the savings of the bank's deposit holders - with Belgians ...

NZ Super suffers $568m loss

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... turbulence in global equity markets. "The negative impact comes despite our lack of any significant exposure to the sub-prime market, the finance company sector, or to the liquidity strains suffered by many financial institutions. "The Fund deliberately ...

Markets are a public good: PM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
Australia may be a small country but it took Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's 2,700 word speech to the United Nations on Friday to articulate a way out of the global financial mess. The speech was in contrast to US Treasury secretray Henry Paulson's widely ...

Super funds are not 'blameless'

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... MacDonald said he is also concerned the current risk analysis modelling did not alert them to the flow-on risks of the US sub-prime mortgage crisis, particularly with what happened with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG and Lehman Brothers. The credit crisis ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
... its 21st Australian Property Directions survey. In Melbourne, court action continues over the collapse of stockbroker Opes Prime. On Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 66.9 points, or 1.39 per cent at 4750.8, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Challenger goes public

THE SHEET  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... August, with at least another A$400 million to come. The highlight of the week was the launch of Challenger's A$400 million prime RMBS issue. This is the first public RMBS issue since the end of July. All the issuance in the intervening period has been ...

Omgeo gives edge to hedge

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2008
... pre-confirmation of trade details on trade date, which assures clients that the data being sent from an order management system to a prime broker has already been confirmed by the executing broker. This means less checking of details, and therefore ...