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Rated AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
... and portfolio - would slow because Australia is no longer rated AAA. Shucks! We would be 'the lucky country' no more! The Sunday Age reported that while Standard & Poor's has maintained Australia's AAA-rating, it warned that '...if the balance sheet ...

Green sprouts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
... resort to human importation. That was at 5.6 per cent unemployment! Go figure. As you sit in front of your Easter feast this Sunday, consider this. While times remain tough, there are emerging indications that the worse may be behind us. Sure lagging ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
... were due for a (retreat)," he said, adding that the market was not responding as negatively to offshore bank bailouts. On Sunday, Spain's government and the Bank of Spain began to rescue major Spanish lender Caja Castilla La Mancha, the first Spanish ...

FPA stops "highly offensive" ads

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... solicitors asked Bannister Mansfield Financial Services director Gavin Murphy to stop running the advertisement that ran in the Sunday Telegraph last week. But the advertisement appeared again in last Thursday's Daily Telegraph and the FPA said they ...

Santa Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... month. Similarly, commodity prices went flying. The reason. Santa Klaus has come to town. In his weekly radio interview last Sunday, Santa Obama promised to produce the 'single largest new investment' in roads, bridges and public buildings since the ...

AIMA and IFSA respond to temp shorting ban

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... Meanwhile, IFSA's deputy chief John O'Shaughnessy said the association had discussed the rulings on Friday and again on Sunday to determine the impact on the funds management industry. "The issues we're interested in is what we might need to do and not ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
... traded down 13 cents to $US115.46 on Friday, although it rose again by $US2.21 to $US117.67 in a special trading session on Sunday. With Hurricane Gustav bearing down on the US Gulf Coast, where the nation's oil extraction and refining industry has a ...

AusSuper drives MEB review

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2008
... $14.8 million in the year to June 2007, and is yet to report for the 2008 financial year. The Canberra Times reported on Sunday that LEK would be paid $800,000 to report in September on the bank's operations, including its sustainability and possible ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... effectiveness a safety net set up for mortgage financiers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Treasury and the Federal Reserve said Sunday that they would aid the companies if needed. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 45.35 points, or 0.41 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... Mae and Freddie Mac would head off further troubles in the financial markets. The Treasury and the Federal Reserve said Sunday that they would aid the companies if needed. Fears for the health of firms like banks were exacerbated after IndyMac was taken ...