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Asset management boosts JPMorgan Q3 earnings

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
Asset management and private banking featured prominently in JP Morgan's results overnight, the first of the major US investment houses to report third quarter earnings. The company's asset management division recorded net income of US$420 million ...

Death by algorithm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... off a chain reaction of stop loss selling from one stock to another, from one market to another. Representatives of the major US exchanges and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are still doing the autopsy on last night's crash. But early evidence ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
... News that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had brought civil charges against the Wall Street giant sent all major US indices plummeting, with financial firms hit the hardest. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 125.91 points, or 1.13 ...

Market Wrap - Mid-Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was 53 points higher at 4,527, on volume of 10,957 contracts. Major US indices finished higher with stocks rallying on hopes that the European Union will help Greece manage its growing debt burden. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
... downgrades and warnings directed at several governments, reports showed manufacturing is weak in the UK and Germany, and major US companies announced poor earnings. At 0807 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract ...

Emerging markets could be heading for bubble

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
... never seen such an increase in institutional interest in emerging markets. In the past six months, we've picked up three major US institutional accounts, which between them account for $1.5 to $2 billion," he said. But this trend has its downside. He ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
... two economy. Dealers welcomed the economic data but players took profits in late trade, awaiting earnings results from major US retailers including Wal-Mart Stores this week. The Nikkei 225 climbed 0.95 points, or 0.01 per cent, to 9,871.68 points. The ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
... or 0.94 per cent, to 1,097.91. LONDON - European stocks shot up on Monday on expectations of more upbeat results from major US companies this week amid hopes of a global economic recovery. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of leading shares jumped 91.3 ...

Higher...higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... watching green shoots grow. As is typical in this stage of the cycle, the usual suspects - mixed economic data - caused the major US stock averages to bob up and bob down before closing narrowly higher in overnight activity. Shares bobbed down on news ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... up 3.29 points, 0.35 per cent, to a preliminary close of 942.43. The market reacted cooly to a decision allowing ten major US banks to repay the Treasury $US68 billion for capital injections made to stabilise the financial system. Analysts had seen this ...