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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
... market has received positive leads from European trading overnight, but the most powerful influence on the day's trade, Wall Street, was closed for Thanksgiving. On the ASX24 at 0701 AEDT, the December share price index futures contract was four points ...

Market Wrap - Mid Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
... Australian share market opened 0.4 per cent higher, pushed up by materials and financials stocks after a positive lead from Wall Street. By 1015 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index gained 19.1 points, or 0.42 per cent, to 4,603.8, while the broaker All ...

Better than a Thanksgiving turkey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
"It's always darkest before dawn." This axiom came to mind as I watched Wall Street recouped its previous day's losses. Everything that could go wrong appeared to have gone wrong yesterday. There was shelling in the Korea's. Ireland's acceptance of ...

US insider trading probe rocks hedge fund community

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... regulatory filing that it "has received an inquiry regarding the recently disclosed insider trading investigation on Wall Street calling for general information and intends to cooperate fully with that inquiry". The New York Times also reported that ...

Fear and thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
... running around like headless Turkeys trying to find the nearest exit away from the oven. There was heavy selling on Wall Street overnight and then... buy backs. At lot of things went through my mind when I powered up the net and saw that US equities ...

New rules for investment advisers: SEC

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... regulator's oversight of investment advisers. The SEC's proposed rules will implement provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. This includes the registration of advisers to hedge funds and other private funds with ...

Chireland hurdled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... failed its stress test. I wrote back then that the stress test results were too good to be true. In September, the Wall Street Journal printed that the July stress test only tested for potential losses on government bonds that are traded by the banks. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2010
... traded. Austock Securities senior client adviser, Michael Heffernan, said the local market has followed a firm lead from Wall Street but had failed to add to opening momentum. "We seem to be struggling to put our feet forward," Mr Heffernan said from ...

Market Wrap - Morning

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2010
The Australian market is receiving strong, positive leads as offshore trading continues on Friday morning, with Wall Street's and Europe's key indices substantially higher, as are precious and base metals and oil. On the ASX24 at 0627 AEDT, the December ...

Fed & RBA on the ball

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... and gents, "political survival." If the world has magically changed over the past two days, it was not evident in Wall Street's performance overnight. The S&P 500 index closed flat (up 0.2 per cent), after the previous day's sharp sell-off. It decided ...