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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
... Index futures contract was up ten points at 3,534. In economic news, the Australian Bureau of Statistics will release its lending finance data for November. TD Securities and the Melbourne Institute release their Inflation Gauge for December. On Friday ...

2009: The lost year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
... as banks are unable to pass on the full amount of the reduction in interest rates. What is more, banks are tightening lending standards as the recession has increased the likelihood of defaults by corporations and citizens alike. Fiscal largesse in terms ...

Bad tidings we bring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... (Taiwan) unexpectedly cut its key interest rate for the sixth time to 1.5 per cent and urged banks to increase corporate lending amid sinking exports and weak domestic demand. Bank Indonesia also surprised by cutting its benchmark rate by 50 basis points ...

Knife falls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
... be on the brink of falling. The Bank of Canada cut interest rates by 75 basis points last night, taking its benchmark lending rate down to a half century low of 1.5 per cent as it tries to forestall a recession in its own economy. The economic environment ...

Scary Money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
... for free money. And even if businesses and consumers wanted to, borrowing has become more difficult with banks and other lending institutions tightening their credit scoring and lending standards. Lenders have become twice shy after being burnt by their ...

Macfarlane calls for a new regulatory regime

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
... crisis, the Asian financial crisis, the emerging markets debt crisis and the tech boom, were characterised by excessive lending. Macfarlane said that, while the short-term goal was to get the financial markets working again, the longer-term goal was ...

Vianova weathers financial crisis

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
... makers. "Our mortgage income fund is currently producing an income return for investors of 7.4 per cent per annum and our lending managers report that they are currently able to write loans at higher returns with lower risk than they have for many years," ...

Que sera, sera

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
... means by which the Fed could influence financial conditions through the use of its balance sheet, beyond expanding our lending to financial institutions.' Among these, he contemplates Fed purchases of longer-term Treasury or agency securities on the ...

Mr. Scrooge's Ghosts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... Eurozone, China, Russia and South Africa are shrinking. More will follow. Ghost of Christmas Past. Low interest rates and lax lending standards encouraged banks/financial institutions to lend vast sums of money to people who can't even afford canned ...

Nominations open for inaugural ACSA awards

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2008
... reporting, portfolio analysis and performance measurement, together with services such as foreign exchange and securities lending. ACSA said nominations should be made through the official ACSA Awards entry form which can be found on the ACSA website ...