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Secure Computing beats hackers at own game

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
Secure Computing is helping financial services firms from inadvertently downloading malicious software without limiting the sites they can access by thinking like a hacker. The Australian Tax Office, the Royal Mint and a range of local banks are known ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open lower after US stocks declined overnight as some traders sold shares to take advantage of the huge gains of he previous two days. At 0752 AEDT, the December Share Price Index futures contract on the Sydney ...

KPMG under fire on Westpoint audit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
Financial watchdog ASIC is suing accountancy firm KPMG over its auditing of companies in the Westpoint Group, a move that renews investor hopes to recover as much as $200 million lost when Westpoint collapsed. The action, taken on behalf of eight Westpoint ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open slightly higher after US stocks slowed their declines on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 Index fell 1.49 per cent and 1.18 per cent respectively while the NASDAQ managed to gain 0.27 ...

Property downturn over: RP Data

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
The bear run of the residential property market is at an end, marked by the surprise slashing of interest rates by the RBA this week, claims RP Data. According to national RP Data property research director Tim Lawless, the residential market has now ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open lower again after receiving a strong negative lead from Wall Street. At 0750 AEDT, the December Share Price Index futures contract on the Sydney Futures Exchange was down 180 points at 4,120. Today, OZ ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
Australian stocks were at lower at noon after world stock markets suffered another dizzying slide overnight as traumatised investors brushed aside central bank interest rate cuts aimed at boosting confidence. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was ...

The global recession we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
Central banks threw in the kitchen sink. In a coordinated move, six major world central banks each cut their benchmark target interest rate by 50 basis points in efforts to stem the global panic. The US Federal Reserve lowered the fed funds rate to ...

No more parachute payments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
The debate on chief executive pay heats up after the discovery that senior executives in many of the banks the government had to bail out were in line for fat parachute payments just as they were negotiating a rescue package for the company. Dexia's ...

Fed on Zero Interest Rate Policy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
Taking lessons from the past, a shock response from the world's major central banks in the form of big interest rates reductions - in the order of say 50-100 basis points each time - might assist reducing the magnitude and length of the coming recession ...