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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
... Construction Index for April. The Australian Office of Financial Management donducts tenders for 13, 26 and 39 week Treasury notes, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics labour force data for April is due. In Sydney, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco ...

Finance job market to recover by 2010

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
... financial services recruitment will start to rebound before mid next year, a new survey shows. Research by Morgan McKinley notes that almost nine out of 10 or 88 per cent of Sydney employers are optimistic about a job market recovery as early as mid ...

Rated AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
... agencies still are after contributing to the pain that we all now must endure? And this is not the first time. Wikipedia notes that 'Enron's rating remained at investment grade four days before the company went bankrupt, despite the fact that credit ...

Charged for no AFSL

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... commenced proceedings against four former Queensland directors who dealt in financial products, including Westpoint promissory notes, without an Australian financial services licence (AFSL). Barry William Silver, of Arundel, Robert Peers Button (also ...

Sustainability grows in EMs

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
... in environmental, social and corporate governance factors in their investment decisions in emerging markets. The research notes that sustainable investments now account for over $428 billion or nearly 10 per cent of total investments last year in EMs. ...

S&P withdraws two UBS ratings

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2009
... scale," said Leanne Fook, S&P Fund Services, regarding UBS Global Asset Management's infrastructure fund. "Overall, S&P notes the international infrastructure sector is experiencing reasonable growth and investors are continuing to express strong interest ...

The light, the light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
... have seen the light, here's the oncoming train's headlights. Reports overnight revealed that yields on US Treasury 10-year notes increased to their highest levels in more than two weeks undoubtedly due to the massive amount of debt the US government ...

Not-for-profit super funds reign

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
... conflict - and to us it looks to be a very expensive conflict." Governance models also play a part in the divide. The research notes that the different way conflicts of interest between fund members and fund managers are structured in the two governance ...

First corporate bond issue of 2009

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
... ANZ and Commonwealth Bank, are confident that pricing will be around 130 basis points over the bank bill swap rate. The notes have a five-year term and are rated AAA, making Australia Post an unusual issuer in the corporate bond market, which is usually ...

Babcock & Brown folds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... administrators after the company failed to pass a special resolution to restructure the terms of its New Zealand-listed subordinated notes. Around 42 per cent supported the move but a majority 58 per cent voted against it. The debt restructure was subject ...