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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2008
The Australian stock exchange was weaker at noon as US financial sector uncertainty continued to affect local banks and insurers. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was 108.4 points lower, or by 2.21 per cent, at 4795.4, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

BGI adds two more ETFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2008
Barclays Global Investors (BGI) listed a further two iShares exchange traded funds (ETFs), providing Australian investors access to Brazil, Russia, India and China and the top 50 companies in Asia. The iShares MSCI BRIC provides access to more than ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2008
The Australian stock market was awash in red at noon, down almost two per cent, mirroring heavy losses on Wall Street overnight on fears that the US's fourth-largest investment bank Lehman Brothers is running out of options to raise capital. At 1207 ...

One step forward, two steps back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2008
So what is it going to be? The US equity market does not seem to know which way it is headed. One day it rallies sharply as investors convinced themselves that the worst of the crisis in the US financial sector maybe nearing the end, the next day it ...

Instos pour $370m into Apostle fund

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
A number of public sector and industry super funds, multi managers and master trusts have pumped a combined $370 million into a specialist Apostle fund that aims to capitalise on the undervalued US senior bank loans market. The Apostle Loomis Sayles ...

Funny Mae, Froggy Mac

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
"Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are so large and so interwoven in our financial system that a failure of either of them would cause great turmoil in our financial markets here at home and around the globe. This turmoil would directly and negatively impact ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
The Australian stock market has received a strong, positive lead from Wall Street this morning, although share price index futures contracts were trading down in Sydney. At 0747 AEST, on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index futures ...

Saved by the Fed

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
Troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be reborn in a four-pillar strategy put forward by the US government - a move that brought fast relief to the credit markets. After more than a month of deliberations, the Treasury, the Federal ...

Saving Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
The financial stability of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would have to be protected at all costs, as their falls would cause cataclysmic effects not just in the US but the rest of the world, including Australia. Speaking at the 2008 Russell Australasian ...

Perennial's global alpha secret

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
Perennial Global Shares High Alpha fund returned 1.68 per cent last month, more than double its benchmark's 0.67 per cent gain. But for a fund with an impressive two-year track record, only a small pool of investors has heard about it. The fund was ...