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Patience is a virtue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... Investors have already factored in that the current financial market upheaval could turn out to be a repeat of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Is there any other bad news that has not been factored into the market -- short of speculating that we are ...

US regulation review models Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... larger, more complex and more difficult to manage. Much of our current regulatory system was developed after the Great Depression and it has developed through reaction - a pattern of creating regulators as a response to market innovations or to market ...

Sub-prime Godzilla tramples Japan

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2007
... pretty spectacular, with absolute house prices, the countrywide average, falling for the first time since the great depression of the 1930s. In its first credit crunch post-mortem - the quarterly inflation report - the Bank of England is sure to take ...

Shorting no longer needs a tick: SEC

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2007
... shorted stocks. The changes are culturally significant in America, as they were introduced in 1939 following the Great Depression, where some blamed shorting for causing the 1929 stock market crash. Yesterday's vote came among other SEC changes to shorting ...