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Finance job market to recover by 2010

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
... and unemployment figures to rise to 8 per cent next year. Following the IMF's gloomy forecasts for the global economy, Treasury Wayne Swan last week did not rule out the possibility of Australian unemployment figures hitting double digits in the midst ...

Passive managers win insto favour

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
... Advisors, says institutional investors are increasingly looking at and capitalising on opportunities arising from the US Treasury Loan Guarantee Program Debt and agency debt. "[TLGP debt] is issued by financial institutions but are guaranteed in terms ...

AllianceBernstein wins Treasury mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
AllianceBernstein has won a US Treasury mandate to manage assets issued by banks and other institutions involved in the Capital Purchase Program under the Emergency Economic Stabilisation Act. AllianceBernstein is one of three firms selected to manage ...

Budget deficit squeezes pension promises

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... hinting pensions would be boosted by $35 per week. But fiscal reality is catching up with the politics of pensions as Treasury estimates suggested the proposed reforms could immediately cost as much as $4 billion per year and significantly more in the ...

Danger, Will Robinson!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... contract by 1.3 per cent this year instead of rising by 0.5 per cent. The danger I speak of is the action taken by the UK Treasury in its annual budget. In unveiling the Kingdom's budget, Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling announced that the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
... Billiton, the gold miners and supermarkets. The market had gained in early trading following a lift on Wall Street after US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner reassured investors about banks. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was up 1.7 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after US stocks gained as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner reassured investors about bank balance sheets. At 0720 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was up 35 points ...

Taking a breather

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
... fortnight. Rumours circulated last night that 16 of the 19 stress tested banks failed and were technically insolvent. The US Treasury was quick to dismiss this, saying that there is 'no basis that any of this is true,' because it doesn't yet have the ...

Risk of indigestion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
... the US government releases the results of the stress tests it conducted on 19 banks. US financial regulators and the Treasury are right now worrying about how to disclose the results to the market. Because of the great potential for disappointment - ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
... international trade in goods and services data for February. The Australian Office of Financial Management conducts a Treasury note tender process, and the Hudson employment expectations survey for the second quarter of 2009 is released. In company news ...