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Grove and Counterpoint seal $11bn merger

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
... incredibly disruptive. We've got to the stage now where there are real opportunities in the credit sector, like bank loans trading at 70 cents in the dollar where before they were north of 90 cents," he said. But Ibbetson said that while they are fishing ...

Banks to benefit from new FI interface

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
... fixed income processing platform designed to eliminate manual errors and reduce post-trade operational risks. Electronic trading platform Yieldbroker, which counts the Commonwealth Bank, Citi and JPMorgan as clients, will now link its platform with Omgeo's ...

New rules for short selling

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... ensure orders can be categorised. Inline with these changes, the ASX will produce a report to the market after 9 am each trading day which will show, by security, the total volume of short sales executed the previous day. The ASX has initiated changes ...

Daily funnies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... investors and increased commercial paper sales signaled credit markets are thawing.' Bloomberg interpreted the previous day's trading where Wall Street lost about 3 percent this way, 'U.S. stocks tumbled in the last half hour of trading after shifting ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... at 12,596.29. WELLINGTON - The NZX 50 index closed down 91.45 points, or 3.29 per cent, at 2,687.104 points. In early trading today, the NZ market rose 97.37 points, or 3.62 per cent to 2,784.474.

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
... "The market in the States wasn't all that bad during most of the day and then, just as we got to the end of the day's trading, there was this big dump. "That's what is affecting the financials." At 1214 AEDT, ANZ was 78 cents lower, or 4.59 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
... which was close to parity with the US dollar about three months ago and hit a five and a half year low in weekend offshore trading - remained weaker at 62.33 US cents, from 63.91 on Friday. At 1205 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had shed 41.7 points ...

Northern Trust adopts FpML

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
... the firm added the Financial Product Mark-up Language (FpML) messaging format to its over the counter (OTC) derivatives trading service. The messaging technology automates the flow of information from an asset administrator, such as Northern Trust, and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... Brokers said falls in Asian markets and on-going jitters about credit issues had shaved away the gains seen at the start of trading today. The market had opened higher after the US bourse made strong gains at the end of another volatile session, with ...

Buy side firms assess tech ability

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... and president. "Our clients worldwide from private wealth to institutional to hedge funds - demand greater control over trading strategies and best execution to support increased volatility, regulatory pressures and M&A activity," he said. Ken Fry, Aberdeen ...