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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
... sharemarket broke its three day winning streak to close down on Monday, by 18.83 points, or 0.50 per cent, at 3710.32. In early trading today, the NZ market was up 25.097 points to 3,735.42.

Bank downgraded in $8.2b scam

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... trader, Jerome Kerviel - has been flagged as a "very substantial" loss for the bank and has arisen within the SG's equity trading division - one of its core business arms. Fitch has empathised with SG's predicament of being the victim of fraud by a single ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
The Australian share market remained firmly in positive territory at noon, boosted by financial stocks, in light trading as cautious investor stayed on the sidelines. At 1217 AEDT the S&P/ASX200 index was up 120.5 points, or 2.23 per cent, to 5,532.8 ...

Murder on super

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
... majority of their $1 million investments on June 20, when the S&P/ASX 200 index closed at 6396.9 points. But by early trading today, the benchmark index had dived to 5470 - causing a near 15 per cent drop in just over six months. Following the recent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after US markets staged a recovery in late trading. At 0816 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index futures contract was up 91 points at 5,470. Today, Zinifex Ltd and Newcrest ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
... YORK - US markets were closed for the Martin Luther King Day public holiday. US stock index futures sank in shortened trading on recession fears. Yesterday stocks continued on their downward trend over concerns that government efforts to boost the economy ...

City Pacific withdraws MFS offer

... a draft proposal was drawn up over the weekend. Shares in City Pacific were down 7 per cent to $3.21 on early morning trading. Michelle Baltazar

Too little too late

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
... warranted may depend on the latest survey of inflation in consumer prices due out later this week. With All Ords down in early trading today, Australian sharemarket is poised to extend its 10-day losing streak which has shaved $130 billion off market ...

New partner for First Quadrant

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
... still be focusing on new strategy development, innovative research, and product enhancements. I will also be involved in trading mechanisms and our investment products, including equities and derivatives," she said. Ye said she will be focusing on improving ...

MFS director waves goodbye

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
... resignation today as he expressed his regret, and stressed that the move was due "solely to personal circumstances". Following a trading halt announced yesterday, Hiscock's departure is the latest development in the MFS saga as the investment company ...