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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
... lead, with Wall Street indices crashing more than four per cent overnight. Oil, gold and silver rebounded as investors sought safe havens. At 0716 AEST, the Sydney Futures Exchange's September Share Price Index contract was 153 points lower at 4,578. ...

Lehman Bros files for bankruptcy

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... and operating functions remain intact. The fully paid securities of Neuberger Berman clients are also expected to remain safe from Lehman Brothers' creditors, as they are segregated from the assets of their parent company.

Banks not ready for Web 2.0

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2008
... enterprise software vendors to convince the great majority of them that the technology won't be handing out the keys to the safe nor setting them up for lawsuits," said Turner.

Frontier's $97bn FUA in safe hands

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
Investment consultants like to keep their performance numbers strictly for clients' eyes only but Frontier, which advises on $97 billion of superannuation assets, broke convention when it publicly revealed its results this year - the first time it's ...

Embracing derivatives: South Korea

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2008
The South Korean derivatives market is on the cusp of a major boom - but investors will have to overcome a lack of education and increased risk before cashing in on the revolution. According to the South Korean Retail Investment Market report by Celent ...

Same old same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2008
Financial market speculation for an imminent RBA rate cut remained despite yesterday's positive news on domestic inflation and consumer sentiment. But this also did not stop the sell-off in the local sharemarket and investors seeking safety in bonds. ...

Central Banks hold fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2008
... equity market activity. And like their overseas counterparts, the local bond market should trade higher as investors switch to safe-haven investments.

UBS faces multi-billion lawsuit

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
... Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo's lawsuit charges UBS with falsely selling and marketing auction rate securities as safe, highly liquid and cash-equivalent securities. UBS came under fire when the attorney general claimed UBS's representations ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
The Australian stock market was over one per cent lower at noon, led by the big banks, after US stocks slipped on lingering concerns about the health of the financial system. Energy stocks and some of the gold miners were bright spots on the market ...

Market Jitters Redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
Market Movers Overnight 15 July "Just when you thought it was safe to get back into the water." This was the movie JAWS 2's tagline back in 1978 and it aptly applies to the global financial markets current predicament. It may not have been a complete ...