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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher this morning, despite overnight falls on Wall Street and amongst base metals in London. On the Sydney Futures exchange, the June share price index at 0705 AEST was up 45 points at 5673. In the news ...

Let the sub-prime post-mortem begin

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
Postmortem into what caused the sub-prime fiasco is pointing the finger at the investment banks, hedge funds and even the apparent hero Dr Greenspan. The main problem, according to a just-released book titled The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money ...

Time to get radical: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
In September when the sub-prime mess began unfolding, the big worry was whether it would spill over to the real economy. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) thinks this may now be happening and has taken the problem to a whole new level requiring ...

Bear Stearns a 'reasonable risk': JPMorgan

... early this month. Also on hand is the US Federal Reserve, which will provide special financing for the deal. The central bank has agreed to fund $32 billion of Bear Stearns' less liquid assets. The deal will boost JPMorgan's earnings and offers good ...

Central banks try again to lift liquidity

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
... dimension to the plan is that the US Fed will increase the currency swap arrangements it put in place with the European Central Bank and the Swiss National Bank by US$10 billion (to US$30 billion) and US$2 billion (to US$6 billion) respectively. The ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open significantly higher after news of a $US200 billion central bank liquidity injection boosted Wall Street overnight. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was up 195 points ...

Marsupials and the money market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
US-Aust interest rate differentials are now at a four year and almost all time high after this morning's US rate rise, putting even more pressure on central banks around the world to follow suit irrespective of local fundamentals. The US rate drop to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
... the two companies, which together insure more than $US1 trillion in bonds. Wall Street initially rallied after US central bank slashed a key interest rate by a half-percentage point to help keep the world's largest economy from tipping into a recession ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher as Wall Street gained ground on the prospect that the US central bank will lift interest rates again and base metal prices generally were up. The US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meets tonight ...

Oil sours economic rally

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... understood that high oil prices have staunched interest rates cuts in Europe where the Bank of England and the European Central Bank remain worried about high inflation. However, energy supply concerns are a guilt-edged sword. According to a recently ...