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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2007
... $US7.5 billion ($A8.6 billion) purchase of a of 4.9 per cent stake in Citigroup Inc spurred a rebound in the financial sector. A sharp slide in crude oil prices also underpinned the market, helping shares of retailers and big manufacturers. The Dow Jones ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2007
... billion ($A8.6 billion) purchase of a of 4.9 per cent stake in Citigroup Inc spurred a rebound in the battered financial sector. A sharp slide in crude oil prices also underpinned the market, helping shares of retailers and big manufacturers. The investment ...

Securitised assets get RAMmed

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2007
... only reinforces views that interest rates will stay high, but also reinforces the pre-eminent position in the financial sector held by banks. For bank share prices this has to be no bad thing. Alex Dunnin, with

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2007
The Australian share market was little changed at noon amid subdued trading, with Wall Street closed for the Thanksgiving holiday and investors sitting on the fence ahead of tomorrow's federal election. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2007
... are still concerns over there and I just think it is just a wash off effect from that," Mr Russell said. "Our financial sector is feeling the brunt of that but I don't know whether the volumes have been all that hard." Local banking stocks dived after ...

ASX companies lag on climate change

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
A Reputex report has revealed four out of five Australian listed companies are risking their profit-generating potential by not adopting climate change policies. Using a scale from -1, representing the lowest score and +1, the highest possible score ...

Sub-prime Godzilla tramples Japan

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2007
... banks take an 'open-Kimono position' towards sub-prime losses, it's leaving Godzilla sized footprints on Japan's financial sector, crushing the $320 billion Mizuho merger and derailing a share-swap between Citigroup and Nikko Cordial. It's been a grim ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
... off across all sectors, but mainly the banking sector on the back of a sell off in the US last night with the financial sector in the US under heavy pressure." The global mining giants were both down, with BHP Billiton down $1.34 to $43.52 and Rio Tinto ...

Sub-prime chewing up financials

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
... towards $100 a barrel and China is snatching wads of its foreign cash reserves away from the green back. The US financial sector is still suffering a sub-prime-mauling, dragging shares down 18 per cent this year, prompting the Federal Reserve to cut ...

Sub-prime still has teeth

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2007
As the sub-prime monster refuses to die, Standard & Poor's takes the scissors to the financial sector sin-bin - snipping at ratings, while the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FIRA) could be giving Goldman's profits a Sherlock Holmes. Fears ...