Posts Tagged ‘Bank’
OCBC Q2 net profit rises 8% to $503m
August 3rd, 2010 | 
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OCBC Bank's net profit rose 8 per cent to $503 million in the second quarter compared to a year ago, missing analysts' estimates, as the group struggled to boost its lending income amid low interest rates, while investment income halved due to turbulent financial markets.
But OCBC raised its dividend for the first six months of the year to 15 cents per share, from 14 cents previously - the first t... more
Posted in Singapore Financial News | 
Tags: Bank, cent, dividend, estimates, group, income, interest, Investment, investment income, lending, low interest rates, months of the year, net profit, OCBC, ocbc bank, profit, quarter, second quarter, share, six months, turbulent financial markets, year | 
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CAD Climbs On Oil And Stock Rebound
The Canadian dollar was soft after the Bank of Canada today raised the benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage to 0.75% as expected but warned of a slow down in domestic and global economic recovery. This relatively dovish statement, however, was not able to play down the market expectation
Posted in Forex Trading |
Tags: Bank, bank of canada, benchmark, benchmark interest rate, Canada, canadian dollar, dollar, dovish, economic recovery, expectation, interest, market, percentage, quarter, rate, recovery, slow down, statement, today |
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Fed may find scrutiny comes with new powers
As officials at the Federal Reserve may soon discover, more isn't always better.
Federal Reserve System - Central bank - Government - Federal Reserve - Economic
Posted in Stocks Unit Trust ETF Investment |
Tags: Bank, Central, Economic, Federal, federal reserve, federal reserve system, government, Reserve, system |
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Bank stocks rise, but Dow drops slightly
Bank stocks shot higher Friday after an agreement on a financial regulation bill reassured investors that new rules won't devastate financial companies' profits.
Wall Street - Stock market - Business - Investing - Stocks and Bonds
Posted in Stocks Unit Trust ETF Investment |
Tags: agreement, Bank, bank stocks, Bill, business, devastate, Friday, investing stocks, investors, market, market business, profits, regulation, shot, stock, stock market, stocks and bonds, Wall Street, wall street stock |
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BOJ Minutes Of May 21-22 Meeting, European Crisis Effects Began To Ease
The Bank of Japan released its minutes concerning May 20-21 meeting when policy makers decided to keep interest rates at its low record of 0.1% to fight deflation that continued to weigh on economic activity in the world's second largest economy. Policy makers signaled the importance of securing investors' trust
Posted in Forex Trading |
Tags: activity, Bank, bank of japan, deflation, economic activity, economy, economy policy, importance, interest, interest rates, investors, Japan, May, meeting, policy, record, Trust, World |
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Your identity’s been ‘tab-napped’
YOU want to pay bills online and decide to load your bank's login page in one of the multiple tabs opened in your Web browser.
You switch to another tab for a few seconds, and when you return to the bank's site it looks exactly like how you left it.
So you happily enter your login details and, before you know it, you've been “tab-napped”.
Beware tab-napping, a sl... more
