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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2008
Local stocks may trade lower today after US equities markets fell by close to four per cent, while Europe suffered less but also was in the red. The key Wall Street indices all were down, as were commodities, including oil, gold, silver, and copper. ...

Aussies shun local equities

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
... expected no change at all come the end of December. As a result, one in five investors is less likely to invest in Aussie equities this quarter. Around 57.9 per cent are neither less nor more likely to overweight to local equities over the next three ...

Head or tails?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
... overnight on renewed optimism that Congress will eventually pass the 'Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.' Equities rallied, albeit not enough to recover all of the previous day's massive losses - after US President George Bush and congressional ...

Bill failed, what next?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
... into a definite recession. At the end of the day, it's not about if they are going to do something, but when." Global equities expert Peter Walmshurst from Templeton Global Equities said that it may be this week or next week that the US Congress will ...

Soup for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
... outcome would be even worse had government securities and exchange regulators not banned short-selling. Further falls in equities are likely as Wall Street's massive decline trigger margin calls -- in America and around the world. In rejecting the bail-out ...

LGSS affected by shorting ban

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
... funds that employ shorting strategies, which has since been affected by the new ban of short-selling listed Australian equities. "It does have an impact on us in a number of ways. A lot of these [hedge fund] managers will employ short selling techniques ...

Gasparet leaves Austock

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
Austock Asset Management's Australian equities portfolio manager, Silvio Gasparet has left the firm resulting in Standard & Poor's placing a 'hold' rating on the its Australian equities fund. Standard & Poor's previously rated the Austock Australian ...

ASIC tightens short-selling rules

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... from targeting the local stockmarket when it imposed temporary restrictions on short-selling of all listed Australian equities effective today. It took less than 24 hours after the UK's financial services regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) ...

No more short cuts

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... exposure through their super funds. According to Rainmaker Data, a super fund allocates an average 24.2 per cent in global equities. But one long-only fund manager said that the developments have minimal impact. "It shouldn't affect our global strategy ...

Dec 2007 redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... has been increased by another US$247 billion. The knee-jerk market reaction was as it was back in December last year -- equities went up, bonds fell. But since then, the S&P 500 index has continued to fall -- from over 1500 points to below 1200 points ...