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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
... 2003. NEW YORK - Stocks regained some lost ground on Friday after a jobs report that was bad but not as horrific as many traders feared. The Labor Department said employers cut 651,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate jumped to 8.1 per cent. ...

Power to the people: Hermes

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... companies they own. "We are helping them in navigating very choppy waters and resisting the siren calls of short-term traders. Working together pension funds can set the course to a new shore of accountability, responsibility and stability," he said. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... average and the Standard & Poor's 500 index near 12-year lows, so a bounce in stocks wasn't a surprise as bargain-hunting traders picked up pummeled shares. Some better-than-expected quarterly numbers from Home Depot Inc helped cool some anxiety about ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
... late November lows all week after tumbling 300 points on Tuesday, barely budging Wednesday and sliding again on Thursday. Traders are worried that if the Dow closes below the psychological barrier of Nov 20 the broader market could see stepped-up selling. ...

IG Markets offers more transparency

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... in response to both internal and industry research that found "pricing transparency" was a critical issue for many CFD traders. "We've done a lot of research, including one through our focus group, and one of the feedbacks we got was this perception ...

Trade and chat at CMC Markets

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
Move over Facebook, a new social network program is in town - CMC Markets traders are now chatting, trading, and sharing their secrets of success with each other on the firm's Trading Social Network. CMC Markets first piloted its TSN April last year ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
... general meetings. On Thursday, the Australian share market closed about one per cent weaker with losses in most sectors as traders looked to make short-term gains. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index ended down 42.7 points, or 1.17 per cent, at 3,598, while ...

IG Markets launches brand campaign

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... country chief executive in Australia, Tamas Szabo, said that the campaign is targeted at the 'considerer's market', CFD traders who are keen to get back into the markets now 30 to 60 per cent lower than 12 months ago. Szabo said that their contracts ...

Faster than the speed of fright

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
... unveiled a new analytic appliance that can process data queries up to 100 times faster than existing databases, allowing traders and quant analysts to retrieve and analyse market information faster and cheaper than ever before. Sybase Australia worked ...

New rules for short selling

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... the ASX will use the information to detect market manipulation and other non-compliant activities. The arrangement means traders must have a system in place to record whether a sell order from a client is a sale of securities they already own (long) ...