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HCL pushes governance practices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... Technologies provides product engineering, IT infrastructure services and integration services to financial service providers and banks. The IT firm has a Sydney office and has eight of the top 10 financial institutions as clients.

Focus on the good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... reported better-than-expected earnings and even Cisco Systems advanced after lowering its earnings forecast. US regional banks such as Huntington and Regions Financial rallied on reports that the government is considering insuring troubled assets or ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... also releases half year results. On Thursday, the Australian share market closed slightly lower as weakness among the major banks outweighed strength among the big miners. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 was 9.3 points, or 0.27 per cent, lower at 3428.6, while ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
... recent institutional placements by Suncorp, Qantas, Westfield and Newcrest mining were draining cash from the market. "The banks are getting belted," he said. "The market is looking pretty terrible from the point of view that all the cash is being sucked ...

Damned if you do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... of 2008. In September, Rudd announced that the government would guarantee public bank deposits and wholesale funding to banks. Why the banks? Why not? We may never know whether this measure has prevented a bank run in the country. In October, the government ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... optimism after the Bank of Japan said it would buy up to $US11 billion ($A17.41 billion) worth of shares held by Japanese banks to ease the pain of the global financial crisis. The benchmark Nikkei shed 48.47 points to 7,825.51, posting a three-day losing ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... Forrest addresses Melbourne Mining Club. The Australian share market closed lower on Monday after weakness among the big banks and global miner BHP Billiton and a negative lead from Wall Street. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 43.3 points, or ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... Forrest addresses Melbourne Mining Club. The Australian share market closed lower on Monday after weakness among the big banks and global miner BHP Billiton and a negative lead from Wall Street. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 43.3 points, or ...

Property re-pricing to come in waves

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... for core investors, the focus for opportunistic buying should be Australia and Japan because both are mature markets where banks, with their more stringent credit policies, will push more property owners into selling assets at heavily discounted levels. ...

Worst of the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... reach zero. Gilts too would fall to historical lows as in the US. In efforts to stop the hemorrhage, like most other central banks, the Bank of England (BoE) has brought its base lending rate to 1.5 per cent as 2008 became 2009. This level of interest ...