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More than 50 funds 'on hold' after shorting ban

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
... to these type of funds and strategies that incorporate short selling. "We're familiar with where these funds have been trading and trying to generate profits. Investors are asking us 'how will this affect the [investment] mandate'. The reason why we've ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... AEST, rival Rio Tinto gained $5.29, or 5.21 per cent, to $106.79 and Fortescue put on $1.52, 26.67 per cent to $7.22. Trading was delayed today while the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) sought a clarification from the corporate regulator about its ...

Greater fool with no shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
Equity markets rebounded sharply at the end of last week's trading as America's administrative, fiscal, monetary and regulatory authorities combined to wrench the claws off the credit squeeze that, last week, threatened to strangle the US financial ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... gold physical future or an equity, you are having a punt; you are not investing." At 1241 AEST, spot gold in Sydney was trading at $US845.40 an ounce, down $US10.50 on yesterday's local close of $US855.90. Newcrest Mining gained 67 cents, or 2.73 per ...

Mahogany assesses Lehman exposure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) listed, Mahogany Capital is voluntarily suspending the trading of its $75 million Notes Series I ahead of possible financing issues with Lehman Brothers. The firm announced the trading halt two days ago and then ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
... December share price index futures contract, was down 177 points to 4599, on a volume of 24,556 contracts. Director of Trading at Burrell Stockbroking, Richard Herring, says the US rescue of AIG has posed more questions for investors than it has answered. ...

America on its knees

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
... would incur penalties. This is intended to prevent, or at least reduce, 'naked short selling. This reminds the FSIU of the trading halt rule implemented by the SEC in response to the stockmarket crash of 1987. This is intended to short circuit panic ...

Moral hazard remains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
Volatile trading continued on Wall Street overnight as investors continued to digest the implications of the Lehman Brothers' collapse on the financial system. Equities were whipsawed, first sliding on the US Federal Reserve's decision to keep interest ...

Where to in global equities?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... said. Not just PE ratios, price-to-book are also not a fool-proof indicator of value buys. "Lehman and Bear Stearns were trading below price-to-book before the events that happened...this highlights the value of deep analysis when you're looking at stock ...

ASIC freezes $1m investor funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... after gaining an interim order from the Supreme Court of New South Wales. The court order freezes offshore securities trading accounts in the Secured Bond Master Fund scheme, which is made up of funds from over 40 Australian investors. These investors ...