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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... NEW YORK - US stocks were hammered for a second day in a row on Thursday as global markets plunged on fears of a deep worldwide recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 443.48 points, or 4.85 per cent, to settle at 8,695.79, nearly matching ...

Conviction where it counts

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
... this year, slashing its allocation in the region from 40 per cent to a low 2 per cent in its Pacific Rim fund. But the worldwide bail-out of financial institutions has turned the finance sector into a fund favourite. "We've gone overweight in financials ...

Yen caught in crossfire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
... still fragile domestic demand. A rising yen would add to the downward pressure in its external sector caused by the worldwide slowdown in business activity. Expectations of further yen appreciation, as seen in the past, would deter current Japanese investment ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
... Australian share market had lost more than one per cent at noon, moving below the four-year lows reached on Friday amid worldwide recession fears. The bourse was being dragged down by financial stocks and hampered by weaker crude oil prices and generally ...

Northern Trust adopts FpML

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
... Trust has more than $3.5 trillion in assets under custody and over $652 billion in assets under investment management worldwide.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
... close since November 2, 2004. NEW YORK - US stocks tumbled amid a panic-driven global market rout, on rising fears of a worldwide recession that will slam a wide range of industries. On Wall Street the Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped 312.30 points ...

Buy side firms assess tech ability

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... stay ahead of the curve, said Peter Lambertus, Charles River Development chief executive and president. "Our clients worldwide from private wealth to institutional to hedge funds - demand greater control over trading strategies and best execution to ...

Perennial bears the bear

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... bounced back and continued to rise. Coincidence or not, the first seven trading days of October - before the bail-outs and worldwide government intervention - a record US$31 billion flew out of US equity mutual funds too. Thomas said that their research ...

Cuscal names MD

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
... ING and has held a number of senior positions at Advance Bank Australia, the State Bank of New South Wales and Monster Worldwide. Cuscal is a traditional provider of wholesale and transactional banking services for retail and financial institutions ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... $72.78. US stocks plunged for a seventh straight session overnight, as investors worried that recent moves by authorities worldwide to thaw frozen credit markets might not be enough to avert global recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 678.91 ...