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Australian finance sector jobs plummet

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... driven by demand for private banking relationship managers. Regulatory reporting is another area of demand in Singapore with banks seeking experts in Basel III and the Dodd-Frank Act. The research comes as news of lay-offs from the ANZ Wealth division ...

Dip buyers buy the dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... happening in Australia. This makes me wonder if Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan sometimes wishes he were Wen Jiabao so that banks would do as he says - or heads will roll.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... 2.13 points to 2,357.03. Regional markets followed losses on Wall Street and in Europe on Friday after data showed Spanish banks borrowed a record E227.6 billion ($A288.48 billion) in emergency cheap loans from the European Central Bank in March. WELLINGTON ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
... it continued to follow the volatility of Wall Street. "We have followed America down as we slavishly do," he said. "The banks aren't too bad, probably the resources are having higher losses than the banks. We're probably going to be like this all day ...

What price surplus?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
... continue to weaken in the coming months.So far The expected RBA interest rate cut could help reverse some of this but with the banks short-circuiting the monetary policy transmission mechanism (ANZ has just lifted its lending rates), it would be small ...

YBR launches savings fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... chance to invest like the top end of town," said Mark Bouris, YBR executive chairman. "RBA analysis shows that the major banks earn about 2.4% per annum more than they pay retail depositors," said Bouris. YBR said that pre-GFC, the OECD found that about ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... were overestimating Spain's problems and did not rule out additional purchases of sovereign debt. Hong Kong-listed Chinese banks were among the day's biggest blue-chip gainers. China Construction Bank added 2.2 per cent to $HK6.06 and Bank of China jumped ...

Investor negativity despite positive signs

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... 9.5% do salary sacrifice lump sum contributions. The report also contained data on the market share between the Big Four banks with CBA supplying 33.5% of investors surveyed and assessed the investor attitudes towards the various asset classes. This ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
... watchdog's approval. Austar shares were one of the few bright sparks, gaining 3.75 per cent to $1.51. Meanwhile, the big four banks were all around one per cent lower. National Australia Bank shed 26 cents to $24.52, Westpac lost 16 cents to $21.89 ...

Can't lose

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
... of Europe. Spanish and Italian bond yields bounced back up last week and just yesterday, reports showed that Portuguese banks demand for ECB funding increased to 56.3 billion in March - more than the record 49.1 billion it asked for last August 2010 ...