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They will, they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
It'll be another case of "will they, won't they" today as the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) holds its regular monthly Board meeting. Will they, won't they? The RBA lowered the country's official cash rate to an even 3 per cent last month. This represented ...

Budget me a recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2009
Good news begets good news. The number of headlines and stories trumpeting that we are getting close to the end of the global financial crisis tunnel had been increasing over the past few weeks. Equity markets like these. They rallied and continue to ...

Life insurers post 18 pc plus growth

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
CommInsure, Aviva and AIG Life recorded 18 per cent or more growth in total risk premium inflows during 2008, around six per cent higher than the market average, according to Plan for Life. The latest report found AIG Life experienced the highest annual ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
The Australian share market should open higher after strong gains on Wall Street. At 0738 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was up 35 points at 3,756. In economic news on Thursday, the National Australia Bank business ...

Keep co-contributions: HESTA

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
The $12 billion HESTA Super Fund puts the spotlight on women's super with its call for the Government to retain the super co-contribution scheme in the upcoming Federal Budget. HESTA's concern has been sparked by fears that next month's Federal Budget ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after US stocks gained as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner reassured investors about bank balance sheets. At 0720 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was up 35 points ...

Taking a breather

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
What do you get when you fall in love (with stocks)? A person with a pin to burst your bubble. That's what you get for all your trouble. Yesterday I warned that the equity markets' advance had been too fast and running too far ahead of economic fundamentals. ...

Fiji Reserve Bank imposes credit controls

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
The political and financial nightmare facing Australian financial institutions in their long-time captive market of Fiji is getting worse by the day. They look to have little choice but to co-operate with harsh new regulations imposed on them by the ...

IMF and Swan riding on doom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
What are they up to? What do they hope to accomplish? I am talking, of course, about the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and our very own Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan. What do they have in common? Both still have not learned their lessons. Both want ...

Bank guarantee must stay in place

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
The government should resist pressure to change the guarantee on wholesale bank funding, according to the head of debt capital markets at a leading investment bank. A director in capital market origination at Citi, David Bailey, said arguments that ...