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State Street expands Australian global markets team

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
State Street Corporation is continuing to expand in Australia and New Zealand with two new senior appointments to its Australian global markets team. Sinclair Scholfield will head up the financial services provider's securities finance business, while ...

Cup Day: Aussies to win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2011
... become the odds-on favourite come Melbourne Cup Day. Financial markets now place a 96% probability that the Australian central bank will announce a 25 bps reduction on 1 November, taking the official cash rate down to 4.5%. And the odds get even better ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2011
... hours. Souring sentiment was the Beige Book September report, which compiles assessments of the economy from the central bank's 12 regions. While there was still growth in all the areas, "many districts described the pace of growth as 'modest' or 'slight'," ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011
... recapitalisation. Investors shrugged off approval by Slovakia of the revamped eurozone rescue fund and focused more on a European Central Bank warning of downside risks to the world economy. At close on Thursday, London's FTSE-100 was down 0.71 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... "AA" with a negative outlook, following downgrades to the country's top banks. Milan soared 2.5 per cent despite a central bank warning of slow growth in the third quarter and a possible credit crunch. Wall Street advanced on strong corporate earnings ...

APRA executive appointed secretary general of Basel

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
Australian Wayne Byres has been appointed as the new secretary general of global banking standard-setting body, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. Byres has been at the helm of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) as executive ...

Manufactured in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
... European equity markets. The mockingbird didn't sing. It didn't sing because, according to theage.com.au, "the European Central Bank warned imposing further losses on holders of Greek debt posed a risk to the euro area's financial stability." Baby's ...

Fidelity to offer fixed income products to Australian market

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
Fidelity Worldwide Investment has announced plans to bring fixed income products to the Australian market towards the end of 2012. The company said it is talking to its planners to gauge their opinions on which products it should bring over from Europe. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
... Facility (EFSF), a tool created last year after debt-riddled Greece took a bailout from the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said that European banks "urgently" ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011
... from the US and growing signs that a coordinated rescue for eurozone banks is in the works. A day after the European Central Bank and the Bank of England took fresh steps to boost credit, higher-than-expected US jobs data helped ease concerns that the ...