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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
... quarterly production report. Progen Pharmaceuticals holds a general meeting. The Australian Securities and Exchange Commission action against Fortescue Metals Group continues in the Federal Court in Perth. MasterCard Australia Ltd executive vice-president ...

US pensions fight for trust

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... realigning and restructuring the existing U.S. regulatory model, including re-establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as the protector of investors and providing it the appropriate resources to achieve its mission. Another key element ...

Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... Board composed of the Federal Reserve Chairman, the Treasury Secretary and the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Director of the Federal Home Finance Agency and the Housing and Urban Development Secretary, will oversee and monitor ...

Bail-out might breach US constitution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... practices that lead to the crash and increased monitoring and sanctions. Recognising this, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Christopher Cox told the Banking committee there is a "regulatory hole that must be immediately addressed," reported ...

AIMA and IFSA respond to temp shorting ban

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... with AIMA UK about the issue. "We are alarmed by ASIC's haste to ban all short selling. The Securities and Exchange Commission in the US (SEC) and Financial Services Authority in the UK (FSA) are only banning naked short sales and restricting other forms ...

ASIC tightens short-selling rules

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
The Australian Securities Exchange Commission (ASIC) moves to block offshore market speculators and traders from targeting the local stockmarket when it imposed temporary restrictions on short-selling of all listed Australian equities effective today. ...

Greater fool with no shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... initiative allowing banks to borrow money for the purchase of Asset-Backed Commercial Paper. The Securities and Exchange Commission enacted a temporary ban on the short selling of 799 financial stocks. The ban is in place from 18 September to 2 October ...

No more short cuts

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... financial stocks, pending a review. The regulator's decision came less than 48 hours after the US' Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) sanctioned stricter rules on short selling - particularly around 'naked' short selling in which the short seller doesn't ...

America on its knees

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
... lending and liquidity initiatives.' The extent of the current market upheaval is such that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has extended a helping hand, announcing that from today (18 September) failure to deliver shorted securities by ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... Lehman Brothers amounting to no more that $150 million. Lehman Brothers' filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission listed ANZ Banking Group as having $85.3 million in exposures via two bank loans worth $US44 million ($A54.4 million) and $US25 ...