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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... France was down 24.38, or 0.87 per cent, at 2,767.28 points. TOKYO - The Nikkei average climbed 3.2 per cent on Tuesday as banks extended gains on improved sentiment about the global financial system and mounting hopes for fresh steps as the US and Japanese ...

Doors open for new ETFs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... that the move was designed to shore up Barclays' balance sheet and avoid the part-nationalisation path taken by other UK banks. But in the same press statement, the bank said it is now in talks with HM Treasury and UK's financial regulator, the Financial ...

RARE quality found in infrastructure

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... simpler financial engineering structures than they do in Australia, where the sector is heavily influenced by investment banks." Dell said investors should also think carefully before investing in 'user-pays' assets like toll roads and airports because ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... Bank of Australia chief executive Ralph Norris speaks at the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia on "How Australian banks are crucial to the economic recovery". Former Macquarie Group chief executive Allan Moss addresses Sydney University alumni ...

FIX adoption critical to growth

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... specifications for the electronic communication of trade-related messages. It has been developed through the collaboration of banks, broker dealers, exchanges, industry utilities and associations, institutional investors and information technology providers ...

NAB gambles on its IFS model

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... consolidation, with Westpac and St George, and Commonwealth and BankWest. "There is also the fact that some of the smaller banks and non-banks that have been competing with us are significantly weaker today than they were a year ago. "The capacity to ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
... haven't done that, so I would imagine if there was anything untoward they would have to say it," Mr Smith said. The other banks were lower, with ANZ down 17 cents at $12.98, Westpac losing 32 cents to $16.55 and Commonwealth Bank falling 25 cents to ...

Spring springs on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2009
... in crisis and crying doom and gloom. By the same token, the end has already begun. It began when governments and central banks took aggressive action to ease the credit squeeze that is choking the global financial system. Positive signs that these are ...

Fanning the flames of fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... money from the US taxpayers (its fourth), AIG presented to the US government that a world without AIG would cause European banks needing to raise more capital, money market funds would lose value, competing life insurers would fail and wipe out the taxpayers ...

Gold will rally, bonds thrive: BlackRock

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
... [prediction] is that Asia went through their [financial] crisis 10 years ago, they went through massive leveraging, their banks don't have the toxic assets that the Western banks do, and their consumers don't have the extended leverage that the Western ...