The British public has developed an insatiable, and some suggest an unhealthy, obsession with celebrities over the past few years with a dozen or so tabloids feeding this appetite on a daily basis with a bounty of forest-felling salacious stories.
Yet the move yesterday by major figures in …
The global financial crisis has highlighted the flaws in the financial system and has spread around the world, from market to market from sector to sector with the increasing swiftness of a locomotive running down a hill.
Indeed, the size of the problem is so vast that it’s …
There was much backslapping among residential lenders in January as they hailed droves of first home buyers returning to the residential property market.
First home buyers also appear unafraid of loading up with cheap debt – combining the carrot of the Government grant and lower interest rates to …
Investors aboard the borrow to invest, get rich quick trainare finally jumping off, or more to the point falling off, with the number of open margin lending accounts declining in the September quarter, for the first time since the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) began publishing margin lending …
Japan is a real case example of how bad things can get when sentiment turns from positive to negative and stays negative, and why the world should be looking at it closely in these times of financial woes.
Many in the West have accepted recession now as a given, …
Mortgage brokers believe ongoing and future consumer demand for their services will prevent the big banks from having their way in driving them out of the market.
New research reveals two thirds of brokers (66.4%) believe banks are trying to squeeze them out of the industry, yet a …
