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No more fear - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
... four-year high" (Australian Financial Review) These headlines were referring to 5 June 2008 - a little over three months before Lehman Bros called it quits on 15 September 2008 - when the S&P 500 closed at 1404.05 points. The S&P 500 index ended at 1365.74 ...

The light, the light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2012
... spectacular as its European counterpart but this took the index up to its highest closing since May 2008 - four months before Lehman called it quits in September of the same year. The S&P 500 index ended 1.5% on the up and up while the Nasdaq increased ...

Forecasts shmorecasts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... year and by 3.1% the next and warned of "a downturn so severe it would eclipse the chaos that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008." Perhaps what gives is that these gloomy forecasts and dire warnings are already priced in and that unless ...

Aus can deal with another GFC: Shorten

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... for the moment, the risk of a much broader freezing up of capital markets and a global crisis similar in magnitude to the Lehman crisis remains. In particular, the willingness of markets to finance the deficits and maturing debt of high-income countries ...

Wolf, wolf

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... Economic Prospects report that, "signalled a downturn so severe it would eclipse the chaos that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008." I touched briefly on this report yesterday but theage.com.au has made a meal out of it. They've even managed ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
... soaring by nearly 500 points and easing fears of a global credit crisis similar to the one that followed the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers. Big US banks were among the top gainers, jumping as much as seven per cent. European banks hold large amounts ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
... turn, could cause a global lending freeze that might escalate into another credit crisis similar to the one in 2008 after Lehman Brothers fell. LONDON - European stocks closed sharply lower as any early optimism that the resignation of Italian Prime ...

Strong culture drives T. Rowe Price

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
... held a contrarian view about the quality of CDOs and sub-prime products that were coming into the market years before the Lehman collapse. He said it was again the company's culture that allowed that 'lone voice' to come through and, fortunately for ...

UBS $2bn rogue trader in custody

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... position, resulting in a US$2 billion loss for the Swiss bank. The news, breaking three years to the day after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, has put UBS trading activites back in the sights of regulators. UBS is believed to have alerted police to ...

New risk technologies shifting industry power

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
... Large banks and other financial institutions have invested far more in post trade risk management since the collapse of Lehman Brothers three years ago, which exposed glitches in controlling exposure. Information Mosaic, which is headquartered in Ireland ...