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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
... appeared to be hopeful of an aggressive interest rate cut tomorrow. "The RBA can surprise," he said. Mr Weston said the banks currently offered excellent buying opportunities. At 1218 AEDT, ANZ had risen 66 cents, or 3.8 per cent, to $18.02, National ...

October mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
... contraction in the US economy in the third quarter. And the scramble to contain the global recession was on. Asian central banks and governments acted. The Bank of Japan (BoJ) cut its benchmark interest rate to 0.3 per cent - the first since March 2001 ...

Citibank narrows retail product

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
... also GE Money, pulled out of the market. "It's about making sure we're here," he said, to compete against the four major banks. Between 90 per cent and 95 per cent of Citi's mortgage customers are sourced through brokers. The bank deals with most aggregator ...

Schroders eyes credit markets

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
... Investment Management Australia. But the last three weeks in particular has seen a structural repricing of risk and Schroders banks the current market cycle as "the top of the slide", and that it should only get better from here. "We're getting interested ...

Banks to benefit from new FI interface

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
... semigovernment securities and AUD corporate, supra, agency and sovereign fixed and floating rate securities. Half a dozen major banks have equity stakes in Yieldbroker while Omgeo is part owned by Thomson Reuters.

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... Xiradis said. "What's driving it is really coming from a number of different areas. "The resource issues are quite strong, the banks are actually quite strong (after they were) reasonably weak in the past week or so. "It really is just a bit of confidence ...

Mortgage funds' phantom lifeline

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... tonight's grocery bill. Even worse, the Prime Minister's announcement that mortgage and non-cash funds should become like banks was a slap in the face for the managed funds industry and the entire regulatory system the government and the nation have ...

Daily funnies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... see the first signs of turnaround during the 1990/91 recession. Lower interest rates generated better yield spreads for banks, debtors saved on interest expenses as they refinanced their debts into loans charging lower interest rates. This improved stock ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
... positive report on US home sales and upbeat earnings news. News that the US Treasury was opening up capital to help ailing banks also appeared to boost sentiment. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 58.94 points, or 0.7 per cent, to 8,437.89 shortly ...

I'll have what she's having

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
... disbursement of an initial US$125 billion (of the US$700 billion rescue package) to buy equity stakes in nine of the largest US banks and another US$125 billion for smaller banks. These insurance companies claim that the banks' rescue has put them at ...