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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2007
... 2,794.83. LONDON - Britain's top share index tumbled more than two per cent, as downgrades and a write-off in the financial sector helped further deflate the post-US rate-cut euphoria. The FTSE 100 index posted its biggest daily fall since the peak of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2007
... boosted the three major indices and a profit forecast from lender Countrywide Financial buoyed the struggling financial sector. Stocks extended their gains as the weekend approached, in a sign investors are expecting the Federal Reserve to cut interest ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2007
... Federal Reserve interest rate cut due to mixed economic data out of the US. The index was also boosted by the financial sector, with troubled bank Northern Rock at the centre of takeover speculation. The FTSE 100 closed 53.4 points or 0.83 per cent higher ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
... the interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve. Rumours on a takeover offer linked to Northern Rock fuelled the financial sector and higher precious metal prices drove up the miners. The FTSE 100 finished 27.7 points higher to 6,456.7 and 167.4 points ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2007
... will continuing to help mining and gold stocks." Saly said some confidence would also return to the banking and financial sector which had been suffering of late. Meanwhile, Treasurer Peter Costello said there was no reason for banks in Australia to ...

Aus and India in free trade talks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2007
... within the next two years, is destined to become the second biggest wealth management market in Asia. "I feel our financial sector has really missed a lot of opportunities in India because I think we're comfortable here and yet if we are doing financial ...

Galton leaves RCM for CFS GAM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2007
... research of RCM's Capital Management Asia Pacific region for four years, providing research coverage on the local financial sector. "With more than 13 years research experience, Greg considerably strengthens the existing capabilities within the CFS GAM's ...

Economic round-up: Market shivers

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2007
... today after Wall Street ended last week badly and the price of oil continued to climb. US stocks plummeted in the financial sector, amid fears that hedge fund losses on risky mortgage securities could be contagious. Meanwhile the end of a general strike ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2007
... as well as a jump in volatility ahead of the rebalancing of several important benchmark indices. The broader financial sector did not fare well. The S&P financials group sank to a two-month low as efforts by Bear Stearns Cos to rescue one of two ailing ...

RBNZ to become single NZ financial regulator

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
... requirements. NZ Commerce minister Lianne Dalziel says while non-bank deposit takers are a growing part of the financial sector, there has been concern that inexperienced investors may not be adequately aware of the risks involved. Dalziel cited the ...