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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011
... 76.88 yen from 77.24 yen on Wednesday. European bank shares plunged after the French finance ministry warned that European lenders exposed to Greek debt will probably face greater losses than those already agreed to. Ahead of a weekend meeting of G20 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
... and Shanghai were given a lift after one of China's sovereign wealth funds bought stakes in the mainland's four biggest lenders. Hong Kong and Shanghai soared in early trade, boosted by China's big four banks after sovereign wealth fund Central Huijin ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011
... markets extended the previous day's gains as dealers were cheered by European Central Bank plans to protect the region's lenders from the sovereign debt crisis. Tokyo closed 0.98 per cent higher, adding 83.60 points, to 8,605.62, Sydney ended 2.29 per ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... pressure, one day after the International Monetary Fund (IMF)and the European Commission (EC) warned about the health of lenders exposed to Greece's debt mountain and indicated that their capital levels should be hiked. Shares in French bank BNP Paribas ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011
... Poor's one-notch downgrade of Italy's credit rating late Monday. Attention was focused on Greece's bailout talks with its lenders, the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund, for a new installment on its rescue package. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... indexes trimmed heavy earlier losses after the Greek finance ministry reported "productive and substantive" talks with its lenders, the EU, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Central Bank (ECB), to hammer out a response to serious slippage ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... stock markets extended a global rally after the world's most powerful central banks offered to inject US dollars into lenders squeezed by the eurozone debt crisis. The European Central Bank and its US, Japanese, Swiss and British counterparts announced ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... over a US jobs stimulus and doubts about European banks, especially after the IMF chief reiterated her urgent plea that lenders recapitalise in view of their holdings of Greek debt. Led by bank stocks, European shares plunged as much as 5.0 per cent ...

Smaller lenders to take brunt of Basel III reforms

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
Smaller institutions such as credit unions and building societies are likely to be hardest hit by the Basel III capital reforms, said PwC, following the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority's release of a discussion paper on the subject. APRA ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... yuan ($A11.73 billion). The index fell by 1.4 per cent in the previous session after the central bank ordered commercial lenders to include margin deposits in the reserves they must set aside. The government has been trying to rein in inflation, which ...