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Property bubble debate heats up

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... Regulation Authority (APRA), which recently reviewed bank lending standards for property investors and last December warned lenders not to increase investor loans by more than 10% a year. But the precautions are still a long way from the measures taken ...

CBA shares down on flat profit

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... $3.29, or 3.73 per cent, to $84.85 as of 1025 AEST, their lowest level since late January. CBA said competition among lenders had weighed on its group net interest margin, the profit it makes on loans, during the quarter. Meanwhile, expenses rose faster ...

BOQ provides exclusive banking solution to AFA members

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... "holistic banking package" which includes a variable fixed home loan allowing members to borrow over 80% LVR without paying lenders mortgage insurance. It also includes the BOQ Specialist One everyday account, to which BOQ Specialist will credit $200 ...

China easing a tailwind for A-share market

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... the past several years and past economic cycles in China," Iwanicki said just days after China's central bank lowered lenders' reserve ratio by 50 basis points in a move to inject more liquidity into the Chinese economy. "Traditionally in China liquidity ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... awaited a "sustainable" proposal from Greece that respected the "basic rules" of the bailout program as set by international lenders. The Athens stock market closed down nearly five per cent, and markets in Britain, France and Germany also fell. LONDON ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
... KONG - Hong Kong stocks have risen 0.35 per cent, boosted by news that China's central bank had cut the amount of cash lenders must keep in reserve. Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index on Thursday added 85.73 points to 24,765.49 on turnover of $HK100.17 ...

Market Wrap AM

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
... the March share price index futures contract was up 97 points at 5,740. Consumers are waiting to find out whether their lenders will pass on a quarter of a percentage point rate cut after the RBA cut the cash rate to 2.25 per cent on Tuesday. And oil ...

Santa's bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2014
... given the depressing headlines about oil's slide (and more to follow), its negative repercussions for junk bonds, and lenders to oil companies, and oil producers and their economies and transmit this weakness other economies and markets, etcetera, etcetera... ...

Banks should hold more capital: Murray

AAP  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... but also to minimise the costs to the taxpayer if they do. It would also level the playing field for smaller banks and lenders, reducing the perception that the government would step in to rescue the big banks if they were in trouble. The big banks have ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... quite significantly and a lot of investors are quite happy to look at buying some of these dips as well," he told AAP. Big lenders are driving the gains. The Commonwealth Bank had risen 84.5 cents to $76.775, ANZ was up 41 cents at $31.99, Westpac gained ...