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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2007
... take losses at noon, following a sharp fall on Wall Street overnight after brokerages downgraded Citigroup and Bank of America. After closing at record highs yesterday, both key Australian indices were hit hard in morning trade. At 1205 AEDT, the benchmark ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2007
... sharply lower overnight, wiping out the previous day's Fed-fuelled gains, after brokerages downgraded Citigroup and Bank of America, sparking fears of more fallout from the credit crisis. Those concerns resurfaced with a vengeance just a day after the ...

Airing the dirty sub-prime linen

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2007
... O'Neal earlier this month had assured staff of their job security, despite an market expectation of further losses, Bank of America's investment banking workforce has not been so lucky with job cuts of 3,000. Some relief to these shocks and to market ...

CBA links with German investment bank

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2007
... Germany. The agreement follows the CBA's existing agreements with other major international banks such as RBS, Bank of America, Bank of China and ABN Amro. Stephen Holden, general manager of working capital and international finance at the Commonwealth ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2007
... helped cancel out worries about how much the credit crunch has hurt the economy, after disappointing earnings from Bank of America. Technology stocks once again outperformed the broader market and lifted the Nasdaq, as investors anticipated more strong ...

Growing credit crunch casualty list

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2007
... of $2.7 billion which was slightly better than expected. Far from licking its wounds, Citigroup intends joining Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase in creating a quasi-rescue fund of up to $79 billion, to help bail out troubled global credit markets. ...

Bear bargains and ambulance chasers

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2007
... two of its hedge funds met with the business end of the sub-prime shotgun. Now, according to The New York Times, Bank of America, Wachovia, China's Citic Group and China Construction Bank have taken the Bear's pulse and look to join potential bidders ...

Barclays to buy ABN AMRO

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2007
... members and nine ABN AMRO members. Independent of the merger, ABN AMRO has also agreed to sell LaSalle Bank to Bank of America for US$21 billion, with the deal set for completion before the Barclays/ABN AMRO merger.

More data leakage and spam in 2007

US-listed messaging security group, Tumbleweed Communications, which counts Bank of America Securities and JP Morgan Chase & Co as clients, warned that data leakage and spam are among the key IT security threats this year. "The spam problem will continue ...

Westfield raises US$1.5 billion

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2006
... and $US900 million 10 year fixed rate notes with a coupon of 5.7 per cent. The joint bookrunners and leads were Bank of America, Citibank and Morgan Stanley. Bank of America's country executive officer, Paul Bartlett, says the issue was the largest REIT ...