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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2007
... Standard & Poor's lowered its outlook on Bear Stearns's debt to "negative," saying the biggest US underwriter of mortgage bonds may have problems, including with its hedge funds, that could hurt the firm "for an extended period". The Dow Jones industrial ...

From rooster to feather duster

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2007
... market began a backward landslide. Global equity markets took another hit on Friday night on the back of the US sub-prime mortgage misery and the ASX 200 suffered its worst one-day rout, on Friday, since the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre. ...

Economic round-up: Mortgage meltdown misery

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2007
... improved following the implosion of two hedge funds. Managed by Bear Stearns, the second-largest underwriter of mortgage bonds, these funds collapsed from substantial losses on sub-prime mortgage backed securities. To make matters worse ratings agencies ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2007
... second of its funds. Shares of Goldman Sachs Group Inc fell 2.5 per cent after Citigroup said Goldman's subprime mortgage bonds issued last year were being downgraded at the fastest rate of any issuer. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 8.21 points ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2007
... rescue a second fund. Shares of Goldman Sachs Group Inc fell 2.5 per cent after Citigroup said Goldman's subprime mortgage bonds issued last year are being downgraded at the fastest rate of any issuer. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 8.21 points ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2007
... two-month low as efforts by Bear Stearns Cos to rescue one of two ailing hedge funds with steep losses on subprime mortgage bonds focused attention on troubles in the sector. Investors worry Bear's problems could presage a credit crunch. The Dow Jones ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2007
... Mr Roberts said. "US equity markets went into the close of a see-saw session firmer with concerns about the sub-prime mortgage giving way at times to limited bargain hunting."

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2007
... Stanley. The New Century stock price has fallen 90 per cent this year and job cuts have been announced. More than twenty mortgage companies have closed operations, gone bankrupt or sold their operations in the last year. The fifth largest sub-prime mortgage ...

Two-thirds of RMBS bonds going to overseas investors

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2007
More than two-thirds of the $5.9 billion of mortgage backed securities the Commonwealth Bank plans to issue in the next couple of weeks will go into the portfolios of offshore investors. Aussie dollar securities are in demand overseas, especially since ...

Putnam banks on fixed income

... strategy is to invest in fixed income with duration held relatively short to preserve capital. The group also favours mortgage and asset-backed securities over investment grade and high yield corporate bonds. Putnam launched its first offerings under ...