Babcock & Brown

Alumina (AWC), a major supplier of alumina and smelting operations which was enlisted in the Australian Stock Market in 1961 was the worst performer on the ASX100 that lost 20.8 percent or 39 cents.

Babcock & Brown (BNB), a global investment and advisory firm based in Sydney has voluntarily requested for the suspension of its shares from trade. Company said that it has asked for the suspension because it has not received a final response from its lenders in relation to a refinancing proposal. At present there is no announcement about the resume of share trade but the trading halt is expected last till next week.

Babcock & Brown Power (BBP) was the overall best performing stock taking in a 41.24 percent increase. It was a mixture of road development, asset management, aviation, power, utility infrastructure, and media companies who were among the best performing stocks for the week 27 of 2008 of the Australian sharemarket: ConnectEast Group (CEU), Babcock & Brown (BNB), Macquarie Airports (MAP), Babcock & Brown Power (BBP), Spark Infrastructure (SKI), Seven Network (SEV). These best performing stocks managed gains above 9.61 percent by the end of the trading week.

A consortium of 25 banks has agreed to continue providing $2.8 billion loan to Babcock & Brown. The company shall completely overhaul its business model along with reducing its dependence on balance sheet. The company shall also avoid any fire sales in coming times.

FKP Property was the overall best performing stock taking in a 41.24 percent increase. It was a mixture of investment and asset management, financial services, energy and metal, and property companies who were among the best performing stocks for the week 25 of 2008 of the Australian sharemarket: Babcock & Brown (BNB), Allco Finance (AFG), Sims Group (SGM), FKP Property (FKP), Babcock & Brown Capital (BCM). These best performing stocks managed gains above 12.57 percent by the end of the trading week.

Australia's biggest electricity producer gained considerably at the Sydney stock exchange after it announced its refinancing achievements. Babcock and Brown today announced that it has managed to refinance it’s a$ 2.7 billion debt which led to increased investor confidence which made the share prices advance 16 percent or 12 cents to 85 cents. It has been its highest gain since June 12.

Babcock & Brown was the overall worst performing stock taking in a 51.96 percent decrease in their listed company value. It was a mixture of investment, fund and asset management, learning services, infrastructure services and energy companies who were among the worst performing stocks for the week 24 of 2008 on the Australian sharemarket: Babcock & Brown (BNB), ABC Learning (ABS), Babcock & Brown Infrastructure (BBI), Babcock & Brown Power (BBP). The majority of the worst performers for the week were attached to Babcock & Brown Group and it was the highlight of the week.

Australia's second largest investment bank, Babcock and Brown has witnessed a free fall at the stock market. Investors have accelerated their selling speed after the share prices have witnessed a landslide of as much as 32 percent. The stocks have lost $7 billion in value out of which half of the loss comes from this week.