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Australia versus economic escargot

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
France may be broke according to its Prime Minister, who has been airing his financial dirty linen in Corsica, but Australia by all reports is a fiscal high achiever. During a trip to Corsica, France's Prime Minister, Francois Fillon made the unpopular ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
... years, which caused concern about the future of the economy. Financial shares fell with more bad news linked to the sub-prime mortgage market, including suggestions the market could put a $2.4 billion dent in Deutsche Bank's profit. That came with a ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
... of Financial Management will confirm a bond issue for September 25, expected to be $600 million of May 2021 bonds. Also, Prime Television Ltd will launch its regional internet service iPrime, the second two-day annual Reserve Mortgage Forum begins in ...

Sub-prime currency fall-out

SUZY MAC IS ON LEAVE  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2007
With central banks lowering official interest rates in response to sub-prime induced credit crunches rather than due to fundamental parameters, we could be in for some unpredictable currency movements. This week the US Federal Reserve slashed their ...

Insto investors down but not out

... aggressively." These bullish investors were duly rewarded when the global markets rallied steadily from August 16 following the sub-prime led market falls. But by this month, their sentiment changed. "In September, institutions were more selective in ...

Lending practices lack clarity

... Deloitte to call for more transparency and disclosure in the lending industry. Amid a housing market spooked by the US sub-prime fallout, Deloitte's head of securitisation practice Graham Mott has said the real problem surrounding lenders had nothing ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2007
... its base federal funds rate by 50 basis points to 4.75 per cent, as a credit crunch generated by defaults in the US sub-prime mortgage market threatened the US economy. The Federal Reserve also cut its discount rate for direct central bank loans by 50 ...

Diversification under the microscope

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2007
With easy money gone following the sub-prime fallout, an industry expert has urged investors to re-assess how diversified their investment portfolios are and whether they can withstand further market volatility. Damien Crowley, general manager of adviser ...

Credit crunch driving recession fears

SUZY MAC IS ON LEAVE  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2007
The US sub-prime crisis is stretching its tentacles across the globe and is starting to reach mortgage borrowers as far afield as Australia and in the UK. Not because these countries have a sub-prime problem per se but because the US wholesale credit ...

Equities sentiment still holding up

Despite the sub-prime induced equities turmoil, sentiment to the sector has stayed remarkably robust in both domestic and international markets. According to the latest Financial Standard market expectations survey, 54 per cent of respondents still ...