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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2008
... points, or 1.67 per cent, to 5,041.9. NEW YORK -Stocks turned lower on Tuesday after fresh worries about the stability of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc touched off renewed jitters about the overall financial sector, while another drop in oil prices weighed ...

Bad news galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
... These included: Following reports that the state-owned Korean Development Bank (KDB) is considering a possible buy out of Lehman Brothers, South Korea's Financial Services Commission issued a warning to the KDB against acquiring an interest in Lehman ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2008
... cent, to 5,010.2. NEW YORK - US stocks closed higher on Friday amid market speculation that struggling investment bank Lehman Brothers could be taken over or win a sizeable cash infusion, and as world oil prices fell sharply. Speculation about Lehman's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
... on Thursday after investors largely shrugged off a jump in oil prices and focused instead on a bullish analyst call on Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc that eased worries about the financial sector. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 12.78, or 0.11 per ...

The saga continues

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
... continued tightness in the liquidity. Financial market concerns also flared after JP Morgan release a report declaring that Lehman Brothers will post a $4 billion credit writedown - three times more than expectations. A report from Goldman Sachs added ...

Count buys $6m stake in Mortgage Choice

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
... its stake in the mortgage advice space. Count acquired a 4.9 per cent interest in the mortgage broker under the advice of Lehman Brothers, noted a statement on the Australian Securities Exchange today. "Mortgage broking has been affected in the current ...

SEC blocks bank short selling

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
... Bank, Allianz SE, Goldman Sachs, Royal Bank ADS and HSBC Holdings are included in the order. In addition, JP Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers Holdings, Merrill Lynch & Co, Mizuho Financial Group, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are also ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... gains Thursday in seesaw trade, amid lingering concerns about the financial health of two big mortgage finance firms and Lehman Brothers. On the positive side of the ledger, traders said Dow Chemical's move to takeover a rival firm and a better-than-expected ...

Lehman Bros appoints ex-Grange Securities chief

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2008
Global investment bank Lehman Brothers appointed former Grange Securities chief executive Paul O'Halloran as head of investment management in Australia. Prior to this appointment, O'Halloran was chief executive at Lehman Brothers-owned Grange Securities. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
... fall in almost three months, ending 2.8 per cent lower. The big decline was led by financials after US investment bank Lehman Brothers reported a $US2.8 billion loss and announced it would raise billions of dollars in capital. Bellwether resources stocks ...