The share market has also been kind to them as Babcock & Brown is leveraged to strong financial markets.

Obviously very leveraged to the financial markets, ... When stocks are going up, this stock should do better than the market. When stocks go down, it should do worse than the market. So, there is risk here. But, it's the most diversified of the major broker dealers.

It's a strong market for this kind of product.

Share buybacks are just a necessary financial function in modern markets, something you have to do almost regardless of stock price. It's almost like paying your bills.

Favouring employment versus the financial markets is a decent policy; certainly not beneficial for the currency or the gilt market, but beneficial for the people.

The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.