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This too shall pass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... turn to A$0.80 instead of A$0.20), Wall Street was again going through another of its wild gyrations. In a span of one trading session, the S&P 500 index swung between a low of 858 points and a high of 922 points - a trading range of more than 7 percent ...

B&B in partnership talks

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... plunging around 94 per cent since the firm struggled to repay debt after a fall in its assets' values. B&B's shares were last trading at $1.44, up approximately $0.12 since the market opened this morning.

The luckier country

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... commodities - which helped underpin growth over the past few years - has reversed. Similarly, crude oil prices are currently trading in the mid US$60 per barrel mark, down from a high of more than US$145 a barrel only three months ago, indicating the ...

Deutsche extends MENA services

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
Deutsche Bank continues to broaden its Middle East and North African (MENA) equities capability, adding trading, sales trading and equity capital markets services to its platform and hiring two senior executives. Former UBS executives, Ahmed Beydoun ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open in negative territory today as US Stocks fell in late trading. At 0752 AEDT, the December Share Price Index futures contract on the Sydney Futures Exchange was down 126 points at 4,211. In economic news ...

Hedge funds slam ban extension

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
... another 28 days to November 18. Although the ban has been extended, ASIC expects to lift the ban as of the next day's trading but it would largely depend on the "state of the markets". The short selling ban on financial stocks will continue until January ...

Three wise economists

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
... above the fed funds rate. This is encouraging, particularly given that only 10 days ago, the overnight USD Libor rate was trading at 388 basis points above the Fed's target rate. While overnight lending rates have cheapened, the USD Libor rate/fed funds ...

JPMorgan buys DME stake

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
... Mercantile Exchange (DME). The global investment bank joins Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Vitol, Concord Energy, Casa Energy Trading and Shell Group as an equity stakeholder. The New York Mercantile Exchange, Tatweer and the Oman Investment Fund collectively ...

Fund trades under super watch

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
... wants to monitor five fund managers, the report can highlight whether all fund managers made the same decision during a trading day. That is, if all of them bought more financials or sold out of consumer stocks. Field said this then alerts the super ...

IG Markets enables chart trading

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
IG Markets has launched a new CFD trading system that allows investors to trade from charts of market data. Developed in partnership with IT-Finance, the new DealThru Charts cover over 70 technical indicators and are updated in real time. The new system ...