Finance News Archive

08-Sep-2005

• 'Oil prices, terror funds, pact, on EU finance agenda (AFP via Yahoo! News)
EU Finance ministers meet in Britain on Friday to discuss the impact of rising oil prices, the pace of moves to block terror financing and Portugal's budgetary problems.
• 'Commercial finance falls 0.7%: ABS (Sydney Morning Herald)
Commercial lending Finance dropped 0.7 per cent in July in the first sign that the surge in business investment may be slowing. New figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed commercial Finance down to $26.1 billion.
• 'HSBC Finance Offers Total Of Y90 Billion In Samurai Bonds (Dow Jones via Yahoo! Australia & NZ Finance)
HSBC Finance Offers Y40Bln 0.91% 5-Yr Samurai At Par (MORE TO FOLLOW) Dow Jones Newswires September 08, 2005 20:50 ET (00:50 GMT) Copyright (c) 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. HSBC Finance Offers Y50B 1.79% 10-Yr Samurai At Par (MORE TO FOLLOW) Dow Jones Newswires September 08, 2005 20:50 ET (00:50 GMT) Copyright (c) 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. DJ HSBC Finance Offers Total Of Y90 Billion In
• 'HSBC Finance Offers Total Of Y90 Billion In Samurai Bonds (Dow Jones via Yahoo! Asia News)
HSBC Finance Offers Total Of Y90 Billion In Samurai Bonds TOKYO (Dow Jones)--HSBC Finance, a U.S.-based unit of HSBC Holdings Plc of the U.K., is offering in Japan a total of Y90 billion of samurai bonds with the following terms, an official at lead manager Mitsubishi Securities Co. said ...
• 'Asia-Pacific Finance Chiefs Call for More Flexible Currencies (Bloomberg.com)
Sept. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Asia-Pacific finance chiefs said developing economies in Asia should relax exchange-rate controls at ``an appropriate pace,'' having earlier proposed that the economies in question could pursue reform at their own speed.
• 'San Diego finance, IT execs expect to add staff during fourth quarter (San Diego Daily Transcript via Yahoo! News)
Eight percent of chief financial officers in the San Diego area expect to hire finance professionals, and 12 percent of chief information officers expect to hire IT professionals in the fourth quarter of 2005, according to Robert Half International financial hiring indexes and IT hiring index.
• 'HSBC Finance Offers Y50B 1.79% 10-Yr Samurai At Par (Dow Jones via Yahoo! Australia & NZ Finance)
HSBC Finance Offers Y40Bln 0.91% 5-Yr Samurai At Par (MORE TO FOLLOW) Dow Jones Newswires September 08, 2005 20:50 ET (00:50 GMT) Copyright (c) 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. HSBC Finance Offers Y50B 1.79% 10-Yr Samurai At Par (MORE TO FOLLOW) Dow Jones Newswires September 08, 2005 20:50 ET (00:50 GMT) Copyright (c) 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
• 'Oil prices, property bubble dominate APEC finance ministers' meeting (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Finance ministers from Pacific rim nations gathered to discuss challenges to their economies, with host South Korea calling for oil market transparency to fight speculative demand for energy.