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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
A falling oil price in electronic trading in New York overnight may boost the Australian stock market today, although it may also have a constraining effect on energy stocks. With physical markets on Wall Street closed for Labor Day, there is otherwise ...

ETS is upside down

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
If Australia wants its emissions trading system (ETS) to be effective in reducing the nation's greenhouse gas output, it should penalise emissions consumption not its production. Geoff Carmody, founder of Access Economics, told ABC Radio in Canberra ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
... $125.14. NYMEX crude traded down 13 cents to $US115.46 on Friday, although it rose again by $US2.21 to $US117.67 in a special trading session on Sunday. With Hurricane Gustav bearing down on the US Gulf Coast, where the nation's oil extraction and refining ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
The Australian stock market has received negative leads from Wall Street on Friday, although in a special trading session on in New York yesterday, oil rose again in anticipation of Hurricane Gustav making landfall in the continental US. At 0751 AEST ...

Let's make the ETS workable: BCA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2008
Business Council of Australia (BCA) criticisms of the government's emissions trading system are not a rearguard action against fighting climate change, but constructive suggestions about how to make it work better. Speaking at the Sydney Institute last ...

Challenger and AXA sign up to Liquidnet

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
... Services Group and AXA Rosenberg Investment Management (Japan) joins the growing band of fund managers that have signed up to trading platform Liquidnet. David Klinger, Liquidnet Asia managing director, said the demand from Asia Pacific investors for ...

US and Aus open equities borders

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
... Australian regulators that may allow brokers from both regions to only comply with their home country regulation when trading Australian or US equities. The groundbreaking deal could further ease cross-border trading and means brokers reduce their compliance ...

Bad news galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
... on the credit market, growth worries and a decline in commodity prices overnight will put downward pressure on today's trading in the Australian stockmarket. Renewed concern over the financial sector and the outlook for global growth overwhelmed last ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
... WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket closed up but off its best levels with a surge in Telecom shares among the features of trading. The benchmark NZSX-50 index closed up 15.31 points at 3,326.92.

Capex & Credit at the forefront

BENJAMIN ONG  |  SUNDAY, 24 AUG 2008
... the common theme of global weakness and elevated inflation. Financial market activity were once again volatile as thin trading volumes exaggerated downward moves in equity markets on the back of continuing negative news on US money and credit markets. ...