SBS chief Shaun Brown congratulated his award-winning subtitling unit this week, despite plans to outsource the work to a subsidiary of MacBank.
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Crikey Cabbie Panel: Which party benefits from the rate rise?
Raising rates during an election campaign is a first for the Reserve Bank and further breaks promises from the Coalition that they will keep interest rates low. But with inflation rising and continued uncertainty in the US subprime market, will voters take a risk on the relative inexperience of the ALP?
Credit crunch hits Perpetual as Gunns pressure grows
At yesterday’s AGM, Perpetual Trustees revealed it hasn’t escaped the credit crunch unscathed, even as protestors turned up the heat over the group’s Gunns shareholding. Glenn Dyer and Stephen Mayne report.
MacMedia point man moved along following Southern Cross deal
They play it rough at Macquarie Bank, writes Glenn Dyer.
Second casino shows how business is done in NSW
Today’s Sydney Daily Telegraph story that a second casino licence will be issued in NSW “within days” is highly unlikely. It has been planted in the media as part of the intense bargaining that has been conducted for almost three months between the Iemma Government and Victoria’s Tabcorp, owner of Sydney’s Star City Casino, writes Alex Mitchell.
Jim Cramer tells Stephen Mayne to keep up the comedy act
It’s not often that a raw prawn makes it onto Youtube but that’s what you’ll find in the latest Mayne Report video defending Macquarie Bank against CNBC raver Jim Cramer, writes Stephen Mayne.
Everyone unloads on Macquarie, stock keeps recovering
Macquarie Bank shares soared today despite supposedly influential US stock picker Jim Cramer devoting his entire 6-minute sell segment on CNBC last Friday to the Millionaire Factory.
Short term credit rate still refuse to be tamed
Our short term credit freeze is refusing to thaw and the Reserve Bank is finding it much harder to cut short term money market interest rates than it thought.
Dick Pratt, Macquarie Bank and Bill Shorten…join the dots
The Sunday program’s Ross Coulthart has been in touch to debunk my story in Monday’s Crikey and stress that the only source of information for his cover-story attack on the Transport Workers Union came from within the union itself – and mostly from serving officials, writes Stephen Mayne.
World’s leading business rag slams “rapacious” MacBank
MacBank chiefs, Allan Moss and Nicholas Moore, probably won’t be too unhappy with the long-awaited Bethany McLean article in Fortune. McLean certainly doesn’t portray Macquarie in a glowing light, but she failed to provide any new damming evidence as to the sustainability of the “Macquarie Model”.
Rams pricing and rates out of line
Before skiting to Australia’s biggest selling newspaper that you’re about to sell $500 million in mortgage-backed securities – labelled a “lifeline” by the Herald Sun yesterday morning – it’d be a good idea to have the investors committed.
RAMS grabs bull market by horns, rises 17%
A vulture fund, a bank or promoter John Kinghorn buying back the company he floated at $2.50 a share at less than $1 a share after the unfortunate events of August? Whatever the reason, RAMS Home Loans Group rose almost 17% yesterday, writes Glenn Dyer.
Millionaire Factory in high stakes Murdoch slug-fest
The starters guns was fired yesterday in what should be the defamation battle of the year as the $21 billion Macquarie Bank empire takes on Rupert Murdoch’s $70 billion global media conglomerate.
Memo MacBank staff: thanks for the profits
In recent months Macquarie Bank employees in AWAs have been forced to work public holidays, weekends and late nights with no compensation. No wonder they are posting record profits — on Friday they received an email thanking them for their contribution…
Macquarie Bank confirms its fragility, pushes up rates
Macquarie Bank has confirmed its fragility and lack of financial strength by lifting interest rates on nearly $8 billion worth of low doc home mortgages. Glenn Dyer reports.
Babcock’s black box defies the credit wobbles
Babcock is now managing a whopping $60 billion in assets, although this remains well shy of Macquarie Bank which is up above $200 billion. Stephen Mayne reports on how it’s handling the sub-prime fallout.
Ironies aplenty as secretive Brambles gets into the outing business
The last time a corporate rival took a position on the Brambles register was way back in 1985 when TNT, then run by the controversial Sir Peter Abeles, engaged Rene Rivkin to snap up a hostile 10% stake.
Macquarie strengthens the Fortress as shares recover
Macquarie Bank shares have bounced by $4.30 to $74.35 in a recovering market this morning and the Macquarie Fortress notes have gained 6c to 64c after this announcement yesterday suggesting that all is not lost.
Markets rebound, CNBC man turns bearish
It was hardly the strongest of rebounds this morning on the market after Wall Street recovered all of Friday’s big loss with a 286 point, or 2.2% gain. Meanwhile, CNBC’s finance commentator Jim Cramer blows a head gasket over the fall out over the market slump.
If Rudd is victorious, how will he share the spoils?
If Kevin Rudd is elected Prime Minister, he now has to find jobs for two ex-Premiers, Bob Carr and Steve Bracks, and one who has signalled he is stepping down in the near future, Queensland’s Peter Beattie.
Millionaire Factory rebounds but the Fortress falls further
The market has bounced back on the coat-tails of a Wall Street bounce this morning but there was one notable exception – Macquarie Fortress Notes.
Macquarie Fortress besieged by subprime problems
If you’d woken up on Monday morning and wondered, “what will we see in the financial markets this week, more subprime problems?” you’d have been right, writes Glenn Dyer.
Macquarie Fortress breached
Macquarie Bank shares today suffered their biggest ever fall after embarrassing revelations about investor losses in a fund that has been hit by the contagion engulfing the US structured credit market.
Morning Market Report
The highlights and lowlights of this morning’s sharemarket activity.
A sad, profitable farewell for monopoly-busting Smorgon Steel
There was a tinge of sadness at the Smorgon Steel shareholders meeting in Melbourne this morning when the company that famously took on BHP’s steel monopoly in 1981 voted to be carved up by the Big Australian’s two steel offshoots.
