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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  3 days ago

• State Bank lowers deposit rates

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Mumbai, Nov 6 (IANS) The country’s largest lender State Bank of India has lowered deposit rates by 25-50 basis points on amounts less than Rs.1 crore effective Nov 9.The new interest rate for a deposit of 15-45 days would be 2.5 percent, down from the current 2.75 percent, while the rates for 181 days [...]
  5 days ago

• Longer Term Bond Indicators Flash Sell

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 436
  The yield of ten-year US Treasury Notes has surged by 34 basis points since the middle of October as market participants started adopting a more upbeat outlook on the economy and shied away from safe-haven assets. Unsurprisingly, the following comes from the minutes of the meeting of November 4 of the Treasury ...
  5 days ago

• Rates Likely to Hold

  
  Mortgage-Blog — Authority: 152
  The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was down 5 basis points from the prior week in Freddie Mac’s latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey . The average 15-year fixed-rate mortgage fell 0.06%. But the yield on the 10-year Treasury indicated fixed rates are likely to stay at their current levels over the next seven ...
  5 days ago

• MTA Headed Below 0.5%

  
  Mortgage-Blog — Authority: 152
  The monthly Treasury index dropped 9 basis points from September to October, according to Federal Reserve Data. Compared to a year earlier, the MTA has fallen 171 BPS. Based on a review of the data, the index will likely fall below a half percent this month.
  1 week ago

• Scary as HELL: ‘It is Japan we should be worrying about, not America’

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/6480289/It-is-Japan-we-should-be-worrying-about-not-America.html Japan is drifting helplessly towards a dramatic fiscal crisis. For 20 years the world’s second-largest economy has been able to borrow cheaply from a captive bond market, feeding its ...
  1 week ago

• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
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• COFI Sinks to Record Low

  
  Mortgage-Blog — Authority: 152
  The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco reported that the cost of funds index fell 14 basis points from August to September. Compared to a year earlier, COFI was 150 BPS worse. COFI has never been this low based on FHLB data dating back to July 1981 — the oldest available data.
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• Mortgage Market Declines

  
  Mortgage-Blog — Authority: 152
  The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose 3 basis points from last week in Freddie Mac’s latest rate survey. Also 3 BPS higher were the 15-year fixed-rate mortgage and the one-year Treasury-indexed adjustable-rate mortgage. Loan applications, meanwhile, were off 12 percent from the prior week in the latest weekly ...
  1 week ago

• Indian equities plummet as central bank tightens policy (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Mumbai, Oct 27 (IANS) Indian stock markets fell sharply Tuesday after the central bank said it has hiked the statutory liquidity ratio for commercial banks and will change its stance on the accomodative policy for housing and finance companies.The market sentiments were hit after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) hiked ...
  2 weeks ago

• India’s central bank to review monetary policy Tuesday

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Mumbai, Oct 26 (IANS) India’s central bank will review its monetary policy for the current fiscal here Tuesday amid growing signs of recovery in the industrial sector but concerns over rising inflation, especially due to high food prices.Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor D. Subbarao will review the policy before ...
  2 weeks ago

• Harbour Bridge picnic may become annual

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  This mornings massive breakfast picnic which closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge could become an annual event. Sydneys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a city-wide food festival, has been hailed a success, with about 6,000 picnic goers in attendance. The eight lanes of bitumen were given a temporary ...
  2 weeks ago

• 6,000 eat brekkie on Harbour Bridge

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Six thousand people have found the best picnic spot in Sydney this morning - sitting down to breakfast on the Harbour Bridge. The citys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a Sydney-wide food festival, was hailed a success. Picnickers say the event was well organised and there have been very few ...
  2 weeks ago

• Deterioration Continues at Freddie

  
  Mortgage-Blog — Authority: 152
  Third-quarter purchases and issuances at Freddie Mac were down by more than a quarter from the second quarter, according to monthly operational data released by the company. During just September, volume fell by nearly a third. Residential delinquency, meanwhile, was up 20 basis points last month. Mulifamily ...
  2 weeks ago

• Australia faces famine, expert warns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A food production expert says Australia may face a massive famine if governments fail to address an impending global food shortage. A conference of food productivity experts in Sydney this week heard the greatest threat to the world is not climate change, but food production on land and in the water. Science ...
  2 weeks ago

• 1-Year ARM Attractiveness Increasing

  
  Mortgage-Blog — Authority: 152
  The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage jumped 8 basis points from the prior week in Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the week ended Oct. 22. But the one-year Treasury-index adjustable-rate mortgage was down 6 BPS in Freddie’s survey. The share of mortgage shoppers who applied for ARMs crept up ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mixed Bag at SunTrust

  
  Mortgage-Blog — Authority: 152
  Third-quarter residential originations were down 31 percent from the prior period, SunTrust Banks Inc. reported. Residential delinquency fell 33 basis points from the second quarter, the report indicated. But quarterly losses at SunTrust increased by $133 million.
  2 weeks ago

• Allahabad Bank net profit up 700 percent in Q2

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Kolkata, Oct 22 (IANS) City-based public sector bank Allahabad Bank posted a net profit of Rs.333.59 crore for the quarter ended Sep 30, 2009, a growth of 700 percent from Rs.41.68 crore recorded in the corresponding period last fiscal (2008-09), a top bank official said here Thursday.“The net profit growth happened ...
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• Swindler Madoff king of ‘wild sex and drug parties’

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Convicted Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff presided over an office fuelled by sex and drugs, with wild late night parties that included topless entertainers, a lawsuit said. His "affinity for escorts, masseuses, and attractive female employees was well known in the office culture," said the suit which was filed in ...
  2 weeks ago

• SBI raised interest rates on corporate loans after reducing deposit rates

  
  Invest In India — Authority: 129
  Two days back country’s largest lender the State Bank of India (SBI) reduced its deposit rates aggressively. Now the bank has started increasing interest rates on corporate loans by up to 50 basis points. This measure is a part of bank’s strategy to make sure its net interest margin (NIM) – improves over ...
  3 weeks ago

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