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BNP Paribas gains Aust banking licence

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
BNP Paribas continues its expansion into the Australian financial markets with wholly-owned subsidiary, BNP Paribas Securities Services, granted a banking licence by the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority. The licence will allow the bank to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... price index futures contract was up 32 points at 4,617. In economics news on Friday, the assistant governor (financial markets) of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Guy Debelle, delivers an address in Adelaide to the Workshop on Global Macro and Finance ...

Not in the mood for bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... points. Chinamen will wake up with the one-year deposit rate is now 3.5% and the one-year lending at 6.56%. If financial markets worried about a hard landing when China's PMI showed manufacturing just teetering on the edge of the 50 expansion/contraction ...

Sunny side up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... won't it" - default, be bailed out, pass austerity measures - shilly-shallying over Greece's immediate future, financial markets are back walking on the sunny side of the street. It's as if the whole Greek - EU/ECB/IMF troika "pretend and extend" theatrics ...

Life insurance gap down 33pc

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... the new report from Rice Warner Actuaries, personal insurance is on the rise due to changes in demographics, financial markets and a renewed focus on personal insurance since the GFC. "Increased levels of personal insurance have been driven by an increase ...

I'm still standing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... continue on culling risk assets off my portfolio if I'm a true believer. Wouldn't you? Wouldn't anyone? But the financial markets' performance over the dying days of June belied the lie of the land - and might I add enriched those who stayed the course. ...

Pigs may fly but they won't default

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... averted another catastrophe - just as we did back in 2010 when Greece created waves and then was bailed out. Financial markets can sleep easy in the meantime. See you next time when Greece comes back begging for another hit.

Market Wrap -Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... was up 49 points at 4,491. In economic news on Tuesday, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) assistant governor (financial markets) Guy Debelle addresses the Systemic Risk, Basel III, Financial Stability and Regulation Conference. In equities news, in Melbourne ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... member countries. This could stop contagion at the door of profligate countries and may be more palatable for financial markets. But shucks, someone has also already thought this. Joachim Fels, head of research at Morgan Stanley warned back in April ...

The sound of QE3

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... hearing without listening." Simon & Garfunkel, The Sound of Silence The US Federal Reserve has spoken - and financial markets didn't like what they heard, for they didn't listen. It was another down day on The Street after the Fed's post-FOMC meeting ...