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Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... talking about real negative stats delivered on our screens over the past 24 hours (OK, maybe a little bit more). In Asian trading, the Australia's benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index jumped more than 1.3 per cent higher yesterday in spite of reports that one ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... its shares more than doubling after its initial public offering. Shares in the career-focused social-networking firm, trading under the stock ticker LNKD, skyrocketed 114.8 per cent to $96.66. The launch price was $45 per share. "There is one takeaway ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... Japan had fallen into a technical recession failed to spook currency traders. At 1200 AEST, the Australian dollar was trading at 106.51 US cents, up from 106.24 cents on Wednesday. Since 0700 AEST, the local unit traded between 106.22 US cents and 106.62 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... five per cent gain in CF Industries Holdings. The company sells fertiliser. Stock indices inched up slowly in morning trading as investors tried to make sense of mixed earnings reports. Reports from Dell Inc and Staples Inc sent contrasting messages ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... meeting suggested a rate rise was not as imminent as the market was expecting. At 1200 AEST, the Australian dollar was trading at 105.49 US cents, down from 105.79 cents on Monday. Since 0700 AEST, the local unit traded between 105.46 US cents and 105.95 ...

Seeing evil, hearing evil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
Another day, another down trading day - on Wall Street and in Europe overnight and chances are, it would be a down day in Asia too - if they follow the blind leaders. You've got it to hand it to market players. They're on their way to proving two immortal ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... Fund is expected to make solving the problems more difficult. Technology companies sustained the largest losses in Monday trading. Investors are growing increasingly concerned over the prospect of an unprecedented US default on its debt. Treasury Secretary ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... better than expected European growth data overwhelmed by persistent concern over eurozone debt woes at the end of a choppy trading week. Most European stock markets made early gains, but ended in negative territory after US markets opened down. London's ...

ASIC draft moves FEX closer to reality

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... sought feedback on FEX's application. This focus overlaps somewhat with the ASX's own scope which has its own derivatives trading. This is the second exchange to emerge as a potential competitor for the ASX, after Japanese exchange Chi-X confirmed it ...

US inside trader hit with possible two-decade jail sentence

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
A former billionaire US hedge fund player has been found guilty of a spate of insider trading charges and could be slapped with a 19.5 year jail sentence. Raj Rajaratnam, who co-founded the New York-based hedge fund management firm, Galleon Group, has ...