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Platforms continue strong growth in third quarter: Assirt

Inflows into investment platforms continued to strengthen in the September quarter, and the major banks are increasingly grabbing the lion's share of new money, according to preliminary data released by research house Assirt. Among the top ten providers ...

Business lending may not match home loan slump: KPMG

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2003
Banks could struggle to make up for a slowdown in mortgage growth by increasing loans to businesses, according to financial services group KPMG. Australia's big banks have pinned their hopes on an upswing in business lending to counter a slowdown in ...

Labor's Latham urges banks to cut fees and charges

WITH AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2003
Banks should cut fees and charges as they continue to rake in massive profits, according to Labor's treasury spokesman Mark Latham. Australia's Big Four banks are raking in profits at the rate of over $1 million every hour of every day. National Australia ...

Midday Market Wrap: Stocks firmer to noon

... The local market initially moved lower at the open, but quickly turned into positive territory as market heavyweights, the banks and News Corp, took control. At 1203 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was 10.9 points firmer at 3211.5 while the all ...

Morning Market Wrap: Market opens low

... Australian dollar rising to a fresh six-year high. Speculation about more interest rate hikes also rattled some of the big banks. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index closed 29.5 points weaker at a six-week low of 3200.6 while the all ordinaries index lost ...

Afternoon market wrap: Shares, bonds close down

... rise last week," Macquarie Equities private client adviser David Halliday said. "A lot of the defensive stocks, such as the banks, utility stocks and property trusts are under pressure." The banking sector was lower with NAB down 31 cents at $29.72 ...

Investors turn bearish on bonds: FSIU

... number expecting flat markets plunged from 49% to 34%. "More investment professionals are expecting higher rates as central banks begin to tighten the monetary policy reins given the strength of the current economic recovery," said the FSIU's head of ...

ANZ first bank to change home lending rates

ANZ has been one of the first major banks to respond to the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) decision to raise interest rates by 25 basis points to 5 per cent, by increasing interest rates for home and residential investment lending by 0.25% per annum. ...

Lure of high yields attracts global fund investments in Australia

... off from a low base at this stage. Presently, markets will essentially be looking to invest in places where the central banks are normalising interest rates." When asked about the robust 7.2% GDP growth in the US over the September quarter, Mr Koukoulas ...

Afternoon market wrap: Shares, dollar end higher

... Gains by market heavyweight News Corp and resource stocks managed to reverse the downward slide on the local bourse, with banks continued their downward trend as investors took stock of the possibility of further domestic rate increases. The benchmark ...