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- Australia Returns to Trade Deficit
- Australia's trade balance returned to a deficit in May after posting its first surplus in six years the previous month.The nation's trade deficit is predicted to narrow, if not be in the black, in the months ahead once the increases in recent iron ore price contracts flow through, economists...
- News items 2008-07-03
- Retail Trade Lifts 0.7% in May
- Consumers spent $20.2 billion on shopping May, resulting in a sharp bounce after four months of slim retail activity.The Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS said retail trade grew by a seasonally adjusted 0.7 per cent in May.Economists had forecast a 0.2 per cent increase.The strong outcome is at odds...
- News items 2008-07-02
- Narrower Trade Deficits Predicted
- Australia could see narrower trade deficits in coming months after the balance of good and services for May came in near expectations, economists say.The balance of goods and services was a deficit of $965 million, seasonally adjusted, in May, from a revised $12 million surplus in April, figures from...
- News items 2008-07-03
- Unemployment Rate 4.3% in May - ABS
- Australia's unemployment rate was a seasonally adjusted 4.3 per cent in May, compared to an upwardly revised 4.3 per cent in April, figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show.Total employment fell by 19,700 to 10,691,200, seasonally adjusted.Full-time employment fell by 10,400 to 7,645,200 and part-time employment was down...
- News items 2008-06-12
- Desk Pilates: Abs and Back
- Your core muscles help you maintain good posture at your desk. Pilates instructor Eleanor Gomez demonstrates some exercises to strengthen your core muscles and help you sit more comfortably.
- Videos 2008-02-06
- Understanding Regulation AB
- The registration, disclosure, and reporting requirements for publicly issued asset-backed securities ABS are governed by the Securities Act of 1933 and the Exchange Act of 1934. The paper focuses on the Regulation AB that contains an updates and clarifies the Securities Act registration requirements for Asset Backed Securities ('ABS') offerings,...
- White papers 2005-06-17
- Term ABS Credit Action Report: December 2004 and Full Year Summary
- This paper highlights credit actions taken by Fitch Ratings in the non mortgage term asset-backed securities ABS market. Improving economic fundamentals and consistent underwriting have led to stabilizing collateral performance and rating volatility. The economy grew at an annual rate of 3.9% in the third quarter, led by continued brisk...
- White papers 2005-01-18
- Term ABS Credit Action Report: November 2004
- This paper highlights credit actions taken by Fitch Ratings in the non mortgage term asset-backed securities ABS market. Improving economic fundamentals and consistent underwriting have led to stabilizing collateral performance and rating volatility. The economy grew at an annual rate of 3.9% in the third quarter, led by continued brisk...
- White papers 2004-12-13
- Term ABS Credit Action Report: October 2004
- This paper highlights credit actions taken by Fitch Ratings in the non mortgage term asset-backed securities ABS market. Stable to improving collateral performance trends continue to be aided by ongoing signs of economic growth and underwriting. After lackluster employment growth during much of the summer, total non farm payroll employment...
- White papers 2004-11-23
- Term ABS Credit Action Report: September 2004
- This paper highlights credit actions taken by Fitch Ratings in the non mortgage term asset-backed securities ABS market. Overall, stabilizing economic fundamentals continued to exert a positive influence on rating activity and collateral performance in September. With no downgrades to report for the month, upgrades in the third quarter outpaced...
- White papers 2004-10-29
- ABS Business Statistics Reengineering and the Impact on Australia's Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics
- In February 2002 the Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS took the strategic decision to proceed with a major re-engineering initiative known as the Business Statistics Innovation Program BSIP. This paper summarises the reasons for the development of the BSIP strategy; the BSIP model; progress to date in implementing the model;...
- White papers 2004-10-26
- Term ABS Credit Action Report: July 2004
- The current edition of the "Credit Action Report" discusses rating actions taken by Fitch Ratings in the non-mortgage term asset-backed securities ABS market. Residential mortgage, home equity, manufactured housing, and collateralized debt obligations, covered by the Residential Mortgage and Credit Products groups, are not discussed. Throughout the summer months, the...
- White papers 2004-08-25
- Good News Is No News? The Impact of Credit Rating Changes on the Pricing of Asset-Backed Securities
- The paper assess the impact of credit ratings on the pricing of structured financial products, using a sample of more than 1300 changes in Moody's or Standard and Poor's (S&P) ratings of U.S. asset-backed securities ABS. The study finds that rating downgrades tend to be accompanied by negative returns and...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- Asset-Backed Securities
- Asset-backed securities, called ABS, are bonds or notes backed by financial assets. Typically these assets consist of receivables other than mortgage loans, such credit card receivables, auto loans, manufactured-housing contracts and home-equity loans. ABS differ from most other kinds of bonds in that their creditworthiness which is at the triple-A...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- An Overview of Credit Card Asset-Backed Securities
- Credit card asset-backed securities ABS were first issued in 1987. Since that time, the credit card ABS market has become the primary vehicle by which the card industry funds unsecured loans to consumers. Given the significance of credit card ABS, the Payment Cards Center encourages research in this area and...
- White papers 2002-12-01
- The Risk in Fixed-Income Hedge Fund Styles
- This paper studies the risk in fixed-income hedge fund styles. Principal component analysis is applied to groups of fixed-income hedge funds to extract common sources of risk and return. These common sources of risk are related to market risk factors, such as changes in interest rate spreads and options on...
- White papers 2002-08-01
- The Risk in Fixed-Income Hedge Fund Styles
- This paper studies the risk in fixed-income hedge fund styles. Principal component analysis is applied to groups of fixed-income hedge funds to extract common sources of risk and return. These common sources of risk are related to market risk factors, such as changes in interest rate spread and options on...
- White papers 2002-08-01
- The Asset-Backed Market in 1999 and the Outlook for 2000
- According to the report, Issuance in the public asset-backed securities ABS market increased marginally in 1999, with volume totaling $196.8 billion, a 0.6% rise over the $195.7 billion issued in 1998. ABS issuance through the first half of 1999 was relatively flat, but strong third-quarter volume helped propel overall issuance...
- White papers 2000-03-01
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- Commodity Fund Manager Victoria Bay Asset Management Announces Name Change
- ALAMEDA, Calif., June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Victoria Bay Asset Management, LLC, the manager of a number of commodity-based exchange traded securities including the United States Oil Fund, LP , has officially changed its name. The new name of the firm is the "United States Commodity Funds LLC USCF." ...
- Articles 2008-06-24
- Absolute to Exhibit at National Education Computing Conference
- VANCOUVER, June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AbsoluteR Software Corporation ("Absolute" or the "Company") (TSX: ABT), the leading provider of firmware-based, patented, Computer Theft Recovery, Data Protection and Secure Asset Tracking TM solutions announced today that it will exhibit at the 2008 National Education Computing Conference NECC in San Antonio, Texas...
- Articles 2008-06-24
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