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Risky business

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2007
... they'd fallen by that much," he said. De Garis believes we can draw confidence from a man with his finger truly on the sub-prime credit pulse - the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President, William Poole. Investors should take comfort that Poole, "who ...

Battling the bears

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2007
... The Reserve Bank's Quarterly Statement on Monetary Policy, out yesterday, showed little sign of being phased by the sub-prime contagion. Focussing on the strength in the domestic and global economies and rising inflationary pressures, the RBA raised ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2007
... share market regained some strength to close higher yesterday after a wave of turbulence last week caused by the US sub prime mortgage market problems. At the close, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 75.6 points higher to 6011.6, while the all ordinaries ...

The price of pain

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2007
... FTSE, The German DAX and the French CAC were down 3.2 per cent, 1.5 per cent and 3.1 per cent respectively. Fear of sub-prime contagion has gripped global markets and prompted some major central bank interventions against a complete credit crunch. The ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2007
... remained sharply lower at noon, after being dragged down by a US market still racked with fear about the fall out in the US sub-prime mortgage sector. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index shed 165.4 points, or 2.68 per cent, to 6000.2. The All ...

Liquidity evaporates

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2007
The sub-prime mess has washed up on European shores, where losses swept through all 18 western European markets and caused a backwash that wiped out more than half of the U.S. markets' three-day recovery. France's biggest bank, BPN Paribas halted redemptions ...

The upside of carnage

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2007
Is the current sub-prime calamity really another savings and loan crisis in the making, or just market noise? Consensus is that the volatility is more rollercoaster than bear-trend, and as such markets are quite capable of recovering just a quickly. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
... cent was largely expected. "It's been factored in over the last couple of weeks, I think, and overseas events like the sub-prime problem are overshadowing something like domestic interest rates. "And the economy's in pretty good shape here." At 1208 ...

Opes Prime challenges Macq

Financial services provider Opes Prime has launched the Opes Prime Wealth Platform, an all-in-one retail prime brokerage service that will compete with a similar offering from Macquarie. The new service is tailored to the top end of the market which ...

Concepts in risk 101

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2007
Market action continues to be dominated by the US sub-prime fallout, but has the market lost its Mojo or is this interest rate and currency market volatility just a rollercoaster ride? Equity markets ended largely unchanged from where they started last ...