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Green lights on green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... China, Japan, Vietnam and Taiwan). Just ask the Wall Street Journal. It printed that Spain would miss its budget targets - yes, target with an s. According to WSJ, it re-stated it 2011 budget deficit to 9.44% of GDP from 8.96% and the 2012 budget shortfall ...

Spanish austerity and Chinese take-away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... These are dated data which the Fed's QE3 is intended to fix -- that's of course if you ignore good ol' in your face Charlie. Yes folks, he was at it again last night. Non-voting FOMC member and Philly Fed president Charles Plosser told the Wall Street ...

ANZ merges NZ brands

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
Both of ANZ's New Zealand brands will be merged over the next two years, the bank announced yesterday. Since purchasing it in 2003, ANZ has operated The National Bank alongside its operations in New Zealand. From the end of October both will be combined ...

The pain in Spain does not fall mainly on the plain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
Take one central banker's lack of faith at the recent action of the institution he serves, add rumours that a region threatens to secede from a country in a region that's desperately trying to stay as one, and what do we get? We get a problem Houston. ...

Razor to board's pay follows PwC review

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
Perpetual's directors have had their pay slashed after a review by PricewaterhouseCoopers found that they were overpaid. After the ASX-listed financial services company's 2011 annual general meeting returned a 26% 'no' vote on the remuneration package ...

Mortgage broker first offender under new law

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
Sydney based mortgage broker, Daniel Nguyen has pleaded guilty to ten charges after he provided false information to banks to secure approvals for $3 million worth of home loans for his clients. The charges laid against Nguyen, 45, are the first to ...

Pick your poison

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... August 2010. Not only that, the July data showed house prices in all 20 tracked cities rising for the third consecutive month. Yes, Stuart QEs work. I bet no one bothered to tell you all about the good news in China too - the Conference Board's leading ...

Storm preyed on the naive: ASIC

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
Storm Financial consciously targeted unsophisticated retiree investors who owned their homes but were inexperienced in financial matters, a Brisbane court has heard. Allan Myers, QC who is representing ASIC said investors were lured by presentations ...

AMP Capital chases Asian growth

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
Retail and institutional investors will be targeted in China and Japan, as AMP Capital chases growth in the Asian region. Plans to provide retail offerings to the Chinese market were currently stalled by laws preventing life companies owning funds management ...

Controversial short-sell ban inconclusive

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
ASIC has defended its 2008 decision to permanently ban naked short-selling and temporarily ban covered short sales, despite its report on the GFC restrictions being inconclusive as to outcome. Yesterday the regulator's deputy chairman Belinda Gibson ...