Sunday August 31, 2008
Just what should central banks be looking at when deciding interest rates?
Friday August 29, 2008
Banks offer very different sets of features for their credit cards, which is why it is important to recognise the different types of credit cards from the banks.
Thursday August 28, 2008
It took a few detours, but this designer found her passion in the city where dreams are made.
Wednesday August 27, 2008
When choosing which banks to deal with, keep in mind that what you want now may be different in the future.
Monday August 25, 2008
THE fall in home-loan costs expected for as early next month could be short-lived as the longer term funding pressures on banks are set to increase rather than ease over the coming year.
Monday August 25, 2008
If you are using multiple banks for a wide variety of financial needs, it is important to find a convenient way of managing your business with all of them.
Sunday August 24, 2008
Attractive home loan rates are available outside the major banks.
Saturday August 23, 2008
THE subprime contagion is still spreading, with major banks in Australia and around the world facing billions more in potential write-downs - but this time to their corporate debt portfolios.
Saturday August 23, 2008
THE economy may be rattling banks and real estate agents, but Mick Mock reckons there has never been a better time to invest in surfing memorabilia.
Friday August 22, 2008
Banks can provide a staggering array of products.
Friday August 22, 2008
MAJOR investment banks are washing their hands of complicated products such as collateralised debt obligations (CDOs), wary of their unpredictable returns. Even so, some investors are labelling them the "opportunity of a lifetime".
Wednesday August 20, 2008
When planning your retirement, the banks you will use for various financial needs can be important.
Wednesday August 20, 2008
THE Reserve Bank has partly blamed Australia's private banks for creating conditions that risk pushing the nation into a "deeper and more persistent slowdown".
Wednesday August 20, 2008
With one of our Big Four banks, Westpac, about to gobble up the fifth biggest, St George, how much competition is there between them? Not as much as we'd like, but more than you may think. In any case, the less-than-cutthroat competition is partly our own fault.
Tuesday August 19, 2008
ANOTHER Victorian state-run organisation is being investigated for breaching investment guidelines, just a week after the Government shut down a water board on the banks of the Murray River for buying into the US subprime crisis.
Monday August 18, 2008
Banks can help your business to expand by providing loans and leasing services to fund improvements.
Saturday August 16, 2008
The Rudd Government is still feeling its way, and it shows. Telstra and the banks are making hay while the sun shines.
Saturday August 16, 2008
is just one of several banks known to have peddled complex financial instruments called collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) in Victoria before the market for them collapsed.
Invest Victoria ,
First Mildura Irrigation Trust,
Maroondah City Council ,
Saturday August 16, 2008
AUSTRALIAN banks and other credit lenders employ "psychological manipulations" to tempt consumers to increase their credit card limits, according to a new report that examines the language and design used in letters offering higher credit allowances.
Saturday August 16, 2008
Banks and lenders should pass on any interest rate cuts to borrowers.
Saturday August 16, 2008
AUSTRALIA'S biggest banks have shrugged off the subprime crisis with little more than a dent in their billion-dollar profits, but many charities, churches, children's hospitals and local councils have been infected.
Saturday August 16, 2008
Paola Totaro catches up with an Australia-bound leader who banks on the resilience of people - not the capacity of government - to effect life's improvements.
Lord Mawson,
Andrew Mawson,
Friday August 15, 2008
Banks can offer great deal son personal loans, but if you want to find the best deal, it can be a good idea to see everything that's on offer.
Thursday August 14, 2008
The banks of the Yarra are one of this city's most beautiful spots. They don't need to disappear over summer for a beach.
Thursday August 14, 2008
Banks offer interest free days on purchases for many of their credit cards, which can lead to low overall costs when combined with low annual fees.
Thursday August 14, 2008
THE Commonwealth Bank yesterday posted a higher-than-expected $4.7 million profit, but don't imagine that is going to influence any decision to cut mortgage interest rates.
Tuesday August 12, 2008
THE global financial downturn looks to be plaguing Australia's big banks, with Babcock & Brown downgrading its interim 2008 net profit by as much as 40%.
Monday August 11, 2008
Many people are looking forward to a possible interest rate reduction by the RBA, but there are concerns that the banks will not respond in kind.
Sunday August 10, 2008
INTEREST rate cut? What interest rate cut? Just as the market was starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel, it turns out that what the Reserve Bank can give, the private banks look increasingly likely to keep away.
Saturday August 9, 2008
SLUMPING property sales in the Hunter prove what was already known.
The brakes are on the economy and consumer confidence has faltered.
That's chiefly to do with global circumstances. The subprime mortgage disaster in the United States has produced a credit crunch. Some of the world's biggest banks are attempting to absorb painful losses and suddenly the long-running glut of money has turned into a relative shortage.
Saturday August 9, 2008
COMMANDER Communications' lenders have called in the corporate paramedics in an attempt to revive what only two years ago was Australia's fourth-biggest telco.
Saturday August 9, 2008
TWO of Australia's largest banks, Westpac and ANZ, have warned that they may not fully pass on any cut in interest rates by the Reserve Bank.
Friday August 8, 2008
Banks offer both high interest savings accounts as well as personal loans, but which is better for helping you to pay for the larger purchases you want?
Friday August 8, 2008
Given the achievements of the past 20 years, now is not the time to stop tariff reform, writes Gary Banks.
Thursday August 7, 2008
THE prospect of the big banks choosing not to pass on the full effects of an interest rate cut by the Reserve Bank to mortgage borrowers receded yesterday, after new figures showed home-loan lending had slowed to its weakest level for 20 years.
Wednesday August 6, 2008
THE world's lenders would lose up to $4 trillion if central banks were not moving to help them through the US subprime crisis, according to one of the world's foremost economic diplomats.
Wednesday August 6, 2008
Banks are very often the first stop for people looking to take out home loans.
Wednesday August 6, 2008
THE resource sector, led by mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, dragged the market to a three-month low despite a late rally by the banks.
Tuesday August 5, 2008
WHEN the disaster relief teams flew into Chengdu in May to tackle the devastation of the Sichuan earthquake, with them was a team from the International Finance Corporation - with $US1 billion of guarantees for local banks so they could help small business survive and rebuild.
Monday August 4, 2008
Banks offer a wide variety of services to help people with their finances.
Monday August 4, 2008
MORE than 30 New Zealand financiers and investment trusts have failed or been forced to stop investors withdrawing their money in the past two years, underlining the exposure of Australian banks to bad debts in New Zealand.
Sunday August 3, 2008
The main difference between banks and credit unions is ownership.
Sunday August 3, 2008
SOMETIMES the sharemarket gets it wrong. When it comes to the banks,not this time. There's been good reason to slash their share prices - don't be surprised if they drift for the rest of the year.
Saturday August 2, 2008
THE perfect combination of swell, offshore winds and shallow sand banks brought a smile to surfers' faces yesterday morning.
Saturday August 2, 2008
Banks offer different types of personal loans.
Saturday August 2, 2008
DANGEROUS BANKS is a large shifting sandbar with a mythical and fearsome history, about 35 kilometres off the tip of north-west Tasmania, where Bass Strait floods into the Southern Ocean.
Saturday August 2, 2008
DANGEROUS BANKS is a large shifting sandbar with a mythical and fearsome history, about 35 kilometres off the tip of north-west Tasmania where Bass Strait floods into the Southern Ocean.
Saturday August 2, 2008
DANGEROUS Banks is a large shifting sandbar about 35 kilometres off the tip of north-west Tasmania. Raging currents, winds and giant swells kept humans at bay for nearly 200 years, but on June 27 three surfers conquered Dangerous Banks.
Friday August 1, 2008
Banks offer a variety of products to help you make the most of your money