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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
... conference begins. On Friday, the Australian share market closed at its weakest levels in almost six years, weighed down by banks and resources stocks following a drop in oil and base metals prices and a plunge on Wall Street overnight. The benchmark ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... S&P 500 index lost 4.25 per cent to 682.55 and the Nasdaq composite index dropped four per cent to 1,299.59. Australia's banks were mixed, with National Australia Bank adding 23 cents, or 1.4 per cent, to $17.00, Commonwealth Bank losing 69 cents, or ...

RIAA adds more members

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... association had not lost any either. She said RIAA is restructuring its membership to include new categories for investment banks and sell side brokerage firms. This restructure will be completed by the beginning of the next financial year, O'Halloran ...

Let them have soup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... by 50 basis points to record lows of 0.5 per cent and 1.5 per cent, respectively. The realisation that even the central banks of Europe, like the Fed and the BoJ, would soon be pushing on a string - if not already - was further hammered home by the ECB's ...

Martin Currie rakes $500m and growing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... office early last year. That is, investors are looking for fund managers with a stable ownership base at a time when major banks are divesting or restructuring their fund management businesses while at the other end of the spectrum, investment boutiques ...

ASF appoints chair

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... Fuller, as chair. Fuller replaces outgoing chair, Phil Vernon. The ASF represents more than 120 organisations including banks, non-bank mortgage providers, investment managers, ratings agencies to promote advocacy, consensus and education. The forum ...

Thank you RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... declining - down 6.5 per cent in the December quarter, Moody's downgrading three - ANZ, CBA Westpac -- of Australia's big four banks and a 1.9 per cent reduction in business inventories in the December quarter. In fact, the R word has again become prominent ...

The Ides of March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... Buy too low and the suffering institutions suffer more. But another way of looking at this is that the toxic assets in the banks' balance sheets are practically worthless now as no one wants to buy them. And the longer they dot the banks' ledgers, the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... concludes. On Monday, the Australian share market closed at its lowest level in more than five years after heavy falls from the banks and big miners. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 94.4 points, or 2.82 per cent, lower at 3250.1 on Monday, its lowest ...

I have been dead wrong: Buffett

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... recognisable errors" as well that were smaller, but still substantial. Buffett said he spent US$244 million for shares of two Irish banks that appeared cheap at the time. However at year's end, Berkshire Hathaway had written these holdings down to $27 ...