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Climate change opportunities, not just costs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
... help drive and shape the global transition, said Senator Wong. Debate around how to design and implement an emissions trading scheme however has to avoid misinformation. "Many countries are already implementing carbon trading and we should not think ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
... oil prices that took crude as low as $US118 a barrel. But the Fed gave stocks a huge push higher in the last hours of trading. In a statement accompanying its widely expected decision, the Fed reported that "economic activity expanded in the second quarter ...

Fortitude hires ex-nab and Macquarie staff

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
... Raward. Prior to joining Fortitude Capital McMahon was divisional director of Macquarie Bank and head of the international trading desk, Equity Markets Group. McMahon has experience as a senior derivatives trader and risk manager. Raward was the director ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
... Jones industrial average fell 42.17, or 0.37 per cent, to 11,284.15. The Dow had been down more than 100 points in early trading. Broader stock indicators also declined. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 11.30, or 0.9 per cent, to 1,249.01, and the ...

S&P studies single manager alternatives

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
... reward problems. Reflecting the popularity of alternative strategies, income funds, which use short selling and derivatives trading to gain income with a portfolio of mostly shares and bonds, had evolved in both institutional and retail market demand ...

US growth disappoints

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
... week. Australian equities, in turn, dance to its tune. The local bourse maintained its gains at the close of yesterday's trading following Wall Street's rally overnight. Stocks closed higher in spite of negative news on Australian retail sales, pointing ...

NAB names new chief

WWW.THESHEET.COM, ASX STATEMENT  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... bank's business in Britain to replace Frank Cicutto in early 2004, following the discovery of several hundred million in trading losses on foreign exchange options. Clyne, 40, took the helm at BNZ in early 2007. He served as executive general manager ...

Some Needed Good News

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2008
... expectations of a 50.1 result. The price of crude oil fell to an 11-week intraday low of US$121.51 per barrel in overnight trading before closing at US$121.79 - down 2.4 percent from yesterday's closing level. From a market technician's perspective ...

Vivid signs on Financial Simplicity

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
... Enterprise Edition product to improve the trade efficiencies of their managed accounts portfolios. According to Jon Reilly, trading and compliance manager of Vivid Financial, the new software will streamline most of the trade processes of the firm's ...

Pure commodities funds win ratings

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
... for the first time and consider them distinct from both equity-based resources funds and the more diversified commodity trading advisor (CTA) products. "S&P has a high level of conviction that each of the products' risk-adjusted returns will exceed relevant ...