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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open weaker following a negative lead from the US as Wall Street tried but failed to find some stability from an interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve and other big central banks. At 0807 AEDT, the December ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
The Australian stock market had lost about $45 billion in value by noon, after Wall Street went into convulsions overnight following the rejection by lawmakers of a massive rescue of the US financial system. At 1215 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 had ...

Global recession coming?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
Financial markets' attention remains glued to the developing negotiations with regard to the proposed US$700 billion Treasury Asset Relief Program. Equity markets closed higher overnight following reports that the US Congress is close to approving the ...

Nomura absorbs Lehman Bros Australia

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
Around 3,000 Lehman Brothers employees, including those in Australia, will soon work for Nomura Holdings, after the Japanese investment firm inked a deal to buy Lehman Brother's entire franchise in Asia-Pacific. The deal is still subject to certain ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
The Australian stock market has received a negative lead from Wall Street, where volatility swept across the financial markets as doubts intensified over the US government's $US700 billion bailout of the banking sector. At 0744 AEST, the Sydney Futures ...

No more short cuts

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
UK's financial services regulator has stepped in to ban the shorting of UK bank shares and other financials from today until January next year - mirroring the US regulator's move to tighten rules on short-selling to thwart speculators from causing more ...

Fitzpatrick vacates VFMC chair

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
Mike Fitzpatrick, chairman of the $37 billion Victorian Funds Management Corporation, is ending his three year term in January next year. In a media statement released yesterday, VFMC confirmed that Fitzpatrick had advised the fund's board that he will ...

Plan B bears market pain

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
Boutique wealth manager Plan B's full year results were not as stellar as the numbers in the half year although the company still managed to meet its earnings target and dish out higher-than-planned dividends for shareholders. Six months ago, Plan B ...

The saga continues

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
Data released overnight shows a continued decline the US housing market, price pressures remain and its financial sector problems have not gone away. US housing starts fell by 11 percent to an annualised 965,000 units in July -- the lowest level since ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to gain after US equities rose. Gold miners may decline after the precious metal fell overnight. At 0737 AEST on the Sydney Futures exchange, the September share price index futures contract was 88 points higher ...