John McFarlane
John McFarlane
John McFarlaneis a British businessman, currently serving as chairman of Barclays...
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The economic environment in Australia, New Zealand and internationally, remains supportive of reasonable earnings growth in the medium term, despite the softening associated with more stable housing and high oil prices,
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Notwithstanding the higher investment spending in the past year, going forward, we will continue to invest in faster growth segments.
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This is somebody who's got a product, and is trying to make noise out of nothing. This is stuff that we do day to day.
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All in all, the environment in 2006 should be broadly similar to that in 2005, enabling us to produce good results in the year ahead.
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it is well known that banks are not held in high regard by personal customers or by the community.
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The transaction is a substantial step in our strategy to reduce group risk and complexity,