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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
... broader All Ordinaries index shed 81 points, or 2.22 per cent, to 3,567.5. NEW YORK - US stocks edged higher in choppy trading on Wednesday after two days of declines as jittery investors appeared to hedge against possibly a tough corporate earnings ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... declined 51.6 points, 1.41 per cent to 3596.9. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was trading 82 points lower to 3658 on a volume of 12,895 contracts. Losses on the Australian market followed falls in the US overnight ...

Away for Easter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
... billion shares changed hands. Huge right? But this is down by more than 11 per cent (550.6 million) from the previous trading day's volume. This is also lower than March's average daily trading volume of 6.2 billion shares. How much lower? Nearly 2 billion ...

Long and short funds merge to ride crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
... drought of inflows reduce their overheads while their new partner, the long-only funds manager, can tap into their existing trading and IT infrastructure. "The operations you need for short money or hedge funds is frankly a far more superior set compared ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
The Australian stock market had edged up almost half a per cent by noon in mixed trading ahead of Tuesday's Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) interest rate decision. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was 13.1 points, or 0.35 per cent, higher at 3748.7 ...

Commodities trading accountant jailed

ASIC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
The former accountant and company secretary of the now defunct commodities trading group Bustan gets a two-and-a-half-year jail term for cooking the books. Claire Horsman, who worked for the Bustan Group between 1999 and 2001 received the jail sentence ...

Make love not leverage

... thousands of kilometers away across the Atlantic, the atmosphere was different. Wall Street was upbeat. The Dow ended the trading session more than 2 per cent higher and the S&P 500 closed up 1.6 per cent. And no, it wasn't because the G20 leaders are ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
... Australian Gold Conference continues. On Wednesday, the Australian share market finished almost flat after a volatile trading session and despite a positive lead from Wall Street. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 closed down 2.4 points, or 0.07 per cent, to ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
... declined by 13.6 points or 0.39 per cent to 3518.7. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was trading 14 points higher at 3,580 on volume of 15,660 contracts. Macquarie Equities' associate director Lucinda Chan said the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
... lost 16.2 points, or 0.46 per cent, to 3,538. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was trading 12 points lower at 3,604 on volume of 14,557 contracts. ABN AMRO Morgans' director of equities Bill Chatterton said the local ...