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Market Jitters Redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... reminded investors that all is not yet well in spite of soothing words and actions from the US Federal Reserve and the US Treasury. The US Treasury announced a pre-emptive plan to support both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. US Treasury Secretary Paulson ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... declined 11.19 points to 1,228.30. The Nasdaq composite index shed 26.21 points to 2,212.87. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury bond fell to 3.860 per cent from 3.964 and that on the 30-year bond fell to 4.440 per cent against 4.536 per cent. LONDON ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
... composite index shed 18.77 points, or 0.83 per cent, to 2,239.08 and Bond prices weakened as the yield on the 10-year US Treasury bond rose to 3.940 per cent from 3.811 per cent Thursday and that on the 30-year bond climbed to 4.517 per cent against ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... index increased 8.70 points, 0.70 percent, to a close of 1,253.39. Bond prices firmed as the yield on the 10-year US Treasury bond fell to 3.811 percent from 3.834 percent Wednesday and that on the 30-year bond declined to 4.421 percent against 4.428 ...

Flight of the squeamish

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
... 'safe-haven' government bonds amid concerns over falling equities and poor bank liquidity. Taking its cue from the US Treasury's robust lead, Australia's 3-month bank bill rate increased to 8.09 per cent, a substantial 84bp above the official cash rate ...

US regulation review models Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... Wallis Report. Central to the proposed reforms that seem to suggest Australia has become somewhat of a global model, US Treasury secretary Henry M Paulson Jr said they would introduce a tri-partite model that focuses on having a system stability regulator ...

US Treasury to announce regulatory overhaul

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
The US Treasury Department has proposed sweeping changes to how their financial markets should be regulated by consolidating its huge number of regulators and bringing practices up top date to what happens around the world. The New York Times has reported ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
... and into the downtrodden financial sector. Banks and mortgage lenders were the standouts following a report that the US Treasury will soon unveil a plan to help stem the subprime mortgage crisis. Investors were also emboldened by the week's big drop ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
... lower to $40.20 and Rio Tinto Ltd had dropped $2.97 to $127.93. US stocks lost 1.6 per cent after the Secretary of the US Treasury said there would be far more US mortgage defaults in 2008 than in 2007. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 211.10 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
... and the all ordinaries shed 40 points to 6450.2. NEW YORK - US stocks fell 1.6 per cent after the Secretary of the US Treasury said there would be significantly more US mortgage defaults in 2008 than in 2007. The Dow Jones industrial average jettisoned ...