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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... The Nikkei index ended down 10.55 per cent, or 1,015.34 points, at 8,605.15, its heaviest loss since the fall of Lehman Brothers in late 2008, and followed Monday's loss of 6.18 per cent. Hong Kong fell 2.86 per cent, or 667.63 points, to close at 22,678.25 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... address the Committee for Economic Development of Australia about the nation's infrastructure needs in Sydney. Lehman Brothers vs Wingecarribee Shire Council continues in Federal Court. The Senate Economics Committee will hold a session in Sydney for ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... major equities news scheduled on Thursday, however in the Federal Court in Sydney, the hearing continues between Lehman Brothers and a raft of local councils and charities over investments in sub-prime mortgage-backed securities in the lead up to the ...

Perpetual settles over Mahogany

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... running legal dispute on behalf of 1,000 retail investors who bought $125 million of notes issued by a subsidiary of Lehman Brothers. The details of the settlement cannot be disclosed for six months, but Perpetual said that it expects investors in the ...

Fuld me twice

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
Almost two years after the failure of Lehman Brothers sent global markets into the tailspin that would eventually become the GFC, shamed former chairman and chief executive of the bank, Dick Fuld, fronted a Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) ...

Fearing September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
... average return. For each of the other 11 months, investors gained nearly one percent on average." Still not scared? Lehman Brothers. When exactly did it file for bankruptcy and set the chain of events that brought financial markets and economies down ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... week. Japanese markets are closed on Monday, a situation that makes some traders nervous since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 also happened on a three-day weekend in Japan. HONG KONG - Hong Kong shares were flat on Friday as investors worried ...

Gold is hip again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
... record high of US$1248.95 an ounce in intra-day trade. It is now almost 60 per cent above its selling price since Lehman Brothers closed its doors on 15 September 2008. Gold's performance becomes even more spectacular when you consider that over the ...

Seek and thou shalt find

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
... The S&P 500 currently trades at 14.1 times forecast earnings. Bloomberg notes that "except for the months after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed," this is the cheapest since 1990. The index soared by "92 per cent in the five years after reaching ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
... MFS. In Canberra, the High Court is to hand down its reasons for judgement in a case between local councils and Lehman Brothers over losses suffered as a result of Lehman's collapse during the global financial crisis. In Australia on Tuesday, the share ...