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Bonds no safer than houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
Flight to safety? Really? Fears about the economic outlook and a helping hand from the US Federal Reserve has pushed up the US bond market over the past few months. Fresh signs that the American economic recession is deepening - and so is the world's ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
... affect the stockmarket," Mr Bishop said. "They don't like the look of those housing figures, because if they're not starting houses confidence is lacking. "So we've got a situation where they've almost cancelled each other out. The market's just sitting ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2008
... expectations that an aggressive Chinese interest rate cut may fight a slowing economy there, boosting shippers and trading houses. The benchmark Nikkei gained 138.88 points, or 1.66 per cent, to 8,512.27. HONG KONG - The benchmark Hang Seng Index rose ...

Thank you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
... spending appears to be working. The Housing Industry Association's (HIA) New Home Sales report shows that sales of new houses rose by 6.7 per cent in October. Thank you too that, because of this, the Federal Budget might not need to go into deficit. ...

Cybercriminals target fin services

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
... source of servers selling stolen financial data to the black market. Australia is also one of the most mature markets and houses the fourteenth longest running 'server' in the world. Symantec Australia director David Dzienciol said a bigger threat is ...

Ratings first, platforms second: CAAM

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... product ratings," said Borysiewicz. "We're working on the product ratings funds [and] we're dealing with all the major rating houses," he said. Lonsec, Standard & Poor's, Morningstar and Van Eyk number among the rating houses that CAAM will approach ...

TAAM wins $100m mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
... Asia has attracted over $800 million in funds under management. The fund has strong ratings from all the major ratings houses and is widely available on key platforms.

US Senate passes bail-out 74 to 25

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
... less resistance to the bill in the Senate than in Congress. Provided there were no conflicting amendments in the separate Houses, President GW Bush will expedite passage of the bill for its immediate enactment as soon as it passes Congress. However ...

Markets are a public good: PM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... "Systemically important financial institutions [including investment banks, insurance companies, hedge funds and financial clearing houses] should be licensed to operate in major economies only under the condition that they make full disclosure and analysis ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
... leaders struck an agreement in principle on a $US700 billion plan to revive the crippled financial system. It is hoped both houses of US congress will vote on the plan within days. Wall street and European markets have reacted positively to the news ...