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UBS cuts business and jobs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
... totalled more than $4 billion. Despite the loss, the bank expects to have a tier 1 capital ratio of roughly 10 per cent in March this year. As a result of these losses, UBS is planning more than $4 billion of cost savings by the end of next year. This ...

Best of the best at Securitor

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
... of the Year' was awarded to Aset Wealth, a firm that was created out of the Walter Turnbull Wealth Management business in March last year when it obtained its own licence. Led by Andrew Turnbull as chief executive and Sean Hammond as head of financial ...

Vantage point

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... year-on-year fall in US industrial production and how capacity utilisation has fallen to a record low of 69.3 per cent in March. Certainly this will have negative implications for jobs going forward. They will cite last night's 0.4 per cent year-on-year ...

Sellers beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
... reports of an unexpected fall in US retail sales. The US Commerce Department reported that retail sales fell 1.1 per cent in March with sales ex-autos declining 0.9 per cent. Expectations were for a 0.3 per cent gain in headline retail spending and a ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
... points to 3,652 on a volume of 9,628 contracts. Australia's unemployment rate was a seasonally adjusted 5.7 per cent in March compared with an unrevised 5.2 per cent in February, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The number of people ...

Green sprouts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
... Australian Bureau of Statistics at 11:30 AM, our time. Market betting is that the report will show 25,000 to 30,000 jobs lost in March after a 1,800 increase in the previous month. And oh my goodness, it would be so bad that the unemployment rate is ...

AXA upgrades insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... experiencing high demand - with March reporting the strongest growth on record. "The number of insurance applications processed in March 2009 is up 25 per cent on last year. "Last year, we launched a comprehensive strategy aimed at regaining a leading ...

Pocketing the change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... economic optimism rose to 49.1 in April from 45.3 in the previous month. The economic outlook index rose to 50.2 from 40.2 in March and the personal outlook index increased to 52.7 from 51.1. Wait there's more. US weekly chain store sales increased by ...

She'll be right mate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
... gains. The S&P 500 and the Dow ended more than 3 per cent higher last week, apparently seeing passed the 663,000 jobs lost in March that took the US unemployment rate to a 25-year high of 8.5 per cent. Jobs and employment are lagging indicators and the ...

GFC Problem solved

... June 2008. Wait there's more. There's also good news in the UK. House prices there reportedly increased by 0.9 per cent in March - the first increase since October 2007. 'One swallow does not make a spring.' Certainly, we would need several more months ...