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CommBank the latest to slug borrowers
CommBank might have raised it rates again, but there is one tiny ray of good economic news on consumer confidence, writes Glenn Dyer.
Who pockets the stock lending fees?
Who benefits when shares in troubled companies are overly punished? Superannuation investors might want to know, writes Glenn Dyer.
Morning Market Report
The highs and lows from today’s sharemarket.
Briefly Business: Apple, Gold, Qantas
Bending over for Apple … Qantas’s illusory holidays … Pricing gold … Tha mad man of Wall Street … Servcorp an object lesson in creative billing.
Surprise, surprise, IAG’s new CEO says predecessor stuffed up
The doom and gloom across Australia’s heavily indebted corporate sector showed no signs of letting up today as Insurance Australia Group’s new CEO unveiled his much-anticipated strategic review, writes Stephen Mayne.
British banking sector takes another hit
For the second time in a year a British bank has had to be rescued, writes Glenn Dyer.
Global markets: The bad numbers keep rolling in
The US slowdown continued its downward trend overnight with some help from Europe, writes Glenn Dyer.
Morning Market Report
The highs and lows from today’s sharemarket.
Morning Market Report
The highs and lows from today’s sharemarket.
US, European markets taking a battering
Overseas markets continue their downward spiral, possibly with worse to come, writes Glenn Dyer.
Morning Market Report
The highs and lows from today’s sharemarket.
Morning Market Report
The highs and lows of the sharemarket.
Global financial house of cards set to collapse?
The global financial house of cards is getting more jittery, virtually by the day, writes Glenn Dyer.
Briefly Business: Cars, Rio’s payrise, Ponzi schemes
US car market suffering … On Ponzi schemes … Welcome to a Jekyll and Hyde economy .. Rio gets a pay rise.
Gippsland votes against the tough decisions
What a shock result in Gippsland! A deeply rural electorate, one that repeatedly re-elected the profoundly thick Peter McGauran, has returned a Nationals candidate yet again, writes Bernard Keane.
Briefly Business: Property, gloom in june, TiVo
Insider trading … Property moves … Gloom in June … $699 for a TiVo — tell ‘em they’re dreaming.
Morning Market Report
The highs and lows from today’s sharemarket.
Morning Market Report
The highs and lows from today’s sharemarket.
Can Macquarie’s tollroad float survive the tumbling market?
Financial markets — it’s a jungle in there. By Stephen Mayne.
Briefly Business: Gambling, Directors, A not so Goodyear
Mobile gambling … Save the schemes of arrangement … If they only sack or lie to you once, it’s been a Crapyear … Time to start voting out dud directors.
Morning Market Report
The highs and lows from today’s sharemarket.
Futuris CEO chopped, tree sellers flogged
Another one bites the dust. Yesterday Futuris CEO Les Wozniczka delivered a profit downgrade and today Futuris is looking for a new CEO, writes Michael PAscoe.
FY08: less than a bottler for our finance “experts”
There are good years, there are bad years, and then there is financial year 2008. Adam Schwab casts his eye over bad year in the life and times of our finance experts.
Babcock holds the line as debt-laden funds hit new lows
It seems bizarre for Babcock & Brown to have a $750 million net profit forecast when about half of this is expected to come from one deal. Stephen Mayne reports.
