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Shopping till unemployment drops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
... latest annual growth figure (October) of 3.8 per cent is the highest it's been since October 2008, the month before Lehman Bros became no more. Not only this but their personal savings as a percentage of disposable income - 5.7 per cent in October - ...

Gotta love gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... before the GFC but it is also way lower than the peak reading of 80.89 points hit two months after the collapse of Lehman Bros in September 2008. From the time Lehman Bros closed its doors to the present, physical gold has returned nearly 67 per cent ...

Too much ado about Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
... contrary, the EU and the IMF tandem will not leave Greece in ruins. It's just unfathomable to think otherwise. Not with Lehman Bros' bankruptcy still fresh in the minds of authorities. Not given recent history. The IMF was there during the Asian currency ...

Strong one, says yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2010
... especially given the still uncertain future of Greece and its impact on the rest of Europe. Instead, they are now at pre-Lehman Bros. Levels. Yields on 10-year US Treasuries are now almost 100 basis points higher, trading at around 3.9 per cent as at ...

Bonds need a double dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
... worst and produce only slow growth at best, US bond yields would be coming back down. Instead, they are now at pre-Lehman Bros. Levels. Yields on 10-year US Treasuries rose by more than 150 basis points from 2.25 per cent at the start of 2009 to around ...

Aussie dollar rises to restore equilibrium

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2009
... more valuable currency could purchase. The A$ went as high as US$0.9786 on 15 July 2008 -- exactly two months before Lehman Bros declared bankruptcy. It was all downhill from there. Bullish predictions were quickly replaced by gloom. The Australian dollar ...

Neuberger Berman buys Lehman Bros

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
Neuberger Berman has agreed to acquire the businesses of Lehman Brothers Trust Company, N.A. and Lehman Brothers Trust Company of Delaware. Neuberger Berman Group which has approximately $194 billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2009, announced ...

Hong Kong cracks down on Lehman Bros

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
Following last year's Lehman Brothers collapse, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority has revealed there are still 930 cases involving the failed bank still under disciplinary consideration within the Chinese state. HKMA announced last Friday that there ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... will hold an extraordinary general meeting. Great Southern Ltd holds its first creditors' meeting in Melbourne, while Lehman Bros Australia holds a creditors' meeting in Sydney. Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce will address a Committee for Economic ...

PE firms gobble Lehman Bros AM

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
Neuberger Berman, a subsidiary of the now defunct Lehman Brothers, along with a huge slice of the parent company's asset management business has been sold for $2.7 billion to private equity giants Bain Capital Partners and Hellman & Friedman. The transaction ...