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The global recession we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
... assets. Germany announced plans to insure all private deposit accounts; the European Central Bank decided to loosen its securities quality rules to facilitate the bailout of German firm Hypo Real Estate; the government's of Belgium and Luxembourg sold ...

CBA in talks to buy BankWest

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
The Commonwealth Bank is negotiating with HBOS plc to purchase BankWest. In a statement from the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Commonwealth Bank said both parties are yet to reach an agreement. This news follows UK bank, Lloyds TSB, buying HBOS ...

Fed on Zero Interest Rate Policy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
... night, Germany announced plans to insure all private deposit accounts; the European Central Bank decided to loosen its securities quality rules to facilitate the bailout of German firm Hypo Real Estate; the government's of Belgium and Luxembourg sold ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2008
... Group and Commonwealth Bank will release their Australian Performance of Services Index (PSI) for September. The TD Securities/Melbourne Institute will release its Inflation Gauge for September. Contact Uranium Ltd will hold its annual general meeting ...

Govt breathes new life into RMBS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
... move to set up a government-sponsored mortgage body and invest in $4 billion of Australian residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) should reinvigorate the ailing RMBS market and re-instate it as an attractive asset class to invest in. This week ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
... capitalisation had fallen about $45 billion. "We are seeing pretty severe selling right across the board," Commonwealth Securities equity economist Savanth Sebastian said. But Aequs Securities institutional dealer Ric Klusman said the Australian stock ...

Soup for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
... have been authorised through April 30, 2009.' This is bad enough but the outcome would be even worse had government securities and exchange regulators not banned short-selling. Further falls in equities are likely as Wall Street's massive decline trigger ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
Stocks listed on the Australian Securities Exchange could be in for a shellacking today, led down by the financial and resources sectors, after the US House of Representatives rejected a $US700 billion rescue package this morning. At 0809 AEST, the ...

ASIC suspends WA AFSL

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) suspended the licence of West Australian based Concentric Wealth Management after it found it couldn't manage it's own debt. In August Mervyn Kitay was appointed receiver manager of Cottesloe ...

Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... their executives. A Board composed of the Federal Reserve Chairman, the Treasury Secretary and the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Director of the Federal Home Finance Agency and the Housing and Urban Development Secretary, will ...