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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2007
... per cent, to 1,462.79. The Nasdaq Composite Index closed off 17.30 points, or 0.66 per cent, at 2,619.83. At home, the big banks felt the knock on effect. Westpac was down six cents at $28.11, ANZ fell 22 cents to $27.62 and Commonwealth Bank dropped ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2007
... by 88 cents to $47.14, Santos was 28 cents lower to $13.63 but Oil Search had edged four cents higher to $4.57. The big banks also were mixed at 1212 AEDT. Westpac had shed 11 cents to $28.09, ANZ had lost 28 cents to $27.57, Commonwealth Bank had fallen ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
... sessions. "We have recovered some of that ground that was lost given the strength of trade today." Mr Land singled out the big banks and the big end of the resources sector as the major drivers behind the market today. Takeover fever added weight to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2007
... had spent much of the day in positive territory as an advance by the shares of energy companies like Exxon Mobil and big banks such as Bear Stearns Cos Inc tempered doubts about the sustainability of Tuesday's sharp gains. The Dow Jones industrial average ...

The worm turns

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2007
... rates would rise at the next 6 November RBA Board meeting. Bad news for the Government" Meanwhile many of Australia's big banks have already already started to re-price rates across a range of consumer lending products above the RBA's official cash rate. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2007
... usual suspects of resource and finance had kept the bourse in positive territory. "The two resource stocks and the four big banks, the usual story," he said. Mr Smith agreed that speculation of an interest rate cut in the United States also had kept ...

Growing credit crunch casualty list

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2007
... markets have stabilised following the Fed's rate cut last month, structured investment vehicles are still under siege. The big banks hope to ease some of the pressure on credit markets, and surely make a little something in the process, by buying assets ...

Rates rising everywhere bar big bank mortgages

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2007
... cent and its Zero home loan went to 8.19 per cent. InfoChoice general manager Denis Orrock is not convinced that the big banks will hold the line on rates much longer. "If the banks were really in the strong position they say they are they would have ...

Having another crack at online mortgages

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2007
... all-time worst may be selling home loans on the internet. Countless online mortgage companies have come and gone. The big banks with active direct mortgage sales arms report that the contribution those businesses make to overall sales is very modest. ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2007
... strongly off the early lows of the day and that's primarily been supported by the finance sector today," Mr Land said. "The big banks as well as decent gains out Macquarie, QBE and ASX shares themselves are really some of the key drivers on the session ...