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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2007
The Australian stock market is expected to open lower today after US stocks fell on scepticism about a plan by global central banks to revitalise credit markets. Metals in London were lower overnight. At 0809 AEDT, on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2007
A directionless Australian share market edged into positive territory at noon as a positive but erratic lead from Wall St was offset by an ailing property trust sector. General insurers also were lower as claim numbers related to storms in Sydney last ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2007
The Australian stock market is expected to open higher today following a positive lead from Wall Street as US stocks rose after the Federal Reserve and other central banks sought to ease a global credit crunch. Metals in London were mixed overnight. ...

Fundies find a loophole in money laundering law

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
On the eve of the implementation of the most significant provision of the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act, the regulator Austrac has conceded that there is a big loophole in the law. Austrac issued a statement yesterday, saying ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
The Australian share market remained one per cent weaker at noon, following Wall Street's disappointment over a smaller-than-expected interest rate cut by the US central bank. At 1200 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 70.3 points or 1.05 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
The Australian stock market is expected to open lower after US stocks slumped following the Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates by a quarter point to 4.25 per cent, disappointing investors who had hoped for a more aggressive reduction. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
The Australian stock market was higher at noon after New York rallied, led by bank and building stocks, as the latest cash infusions into battered financial firms, including Swiss bank UBS, eased credit concerns. The likely prospect of a Federal Reserve ...

Singapore and ME fund swoop on UBS

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
Government of Singapore Investment Corp and an unidentified Middle Eastern investor (rumoured to be a state controlled fund from Oman) have chipped in $11.6 billion in capital into UBS to lift it out of the sub-prime funding jungle. This is the latest ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
The Australian stock market is expected to open higher after US stocks advanced on Monday as investors snapped up beaten-down financial shares on news of the latest injection of funds into a major global bank. Expectations of a Federal Reserve interest-rate ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
The Australian market was down at noon as weakness in the banking sector offset modest gains by the big miners. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 23.5 points lower at 6631.2 and the All Ordinaries had declined 19.3 points to 6694.7. On ...