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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2007
... panic on the markets, with $21 billion wiped from the value of stocks comprising the All Ordinaries index by the close. Traders were left with nowhere to hedge risk, triggering the sale of physical stocks instead. Futures trading was halted by the ASX ...

The price of pain

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2007
... billion (1.84 billion) into the banking system and Singapore's Monetary Authority added S$1.5 billion (1.16 billion). Traders estimated that Swiss National Bank contributed 2-3 billion Swiss francs (1.97-2.96) and our own Reserve Bank injected 4.95 billion ...

The upside of carnage

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2007
... are still well up." He believes that recent sell-offs would be occurring at the margin, either with hedge funds and/or traders. With the sheer volume of investors now in the market, "it only requires a few at the margins to panic then you have a correction." ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2007
... as investors, spooked by global market turmoil and concerns about the US credit market, cashed out after analysts and traders warned of more pain to come. The benchmark Hang Seng Index slid 2.67 per cent or 601.71 to finish the session at 21,936.73. ...

CFDs move from off-market to exchange

... CFDs already in the market, the group hopes to differentiate itself by taking margin calls out of the equation. Instead, traders are assured that they don't lose any more than their initial capital. The trade-off is that ABN AMRO imposes its own stop-loss ...

Liquidnet trading breaks mould

... as one of the top ten brokers on the New York and London Stock Exchanges, Liquidnet enables fund managers and buy-side traders to buy and sell large blocks of shares without going through a traditional broker. "There's a lot of information leakage that ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2007
... here, it will be driven largely by the data that comes out of places like China this week," he said. He said currency traders are looking for strong economic growth news from China to confirm ongoing strength in commodity prices, which have the potential ...

More money on money

... foreign-exchange market participants behave is different to those who trade bonds and equities. However, many of these currency traders tend to look at currency management as a way to hedge risk as opposed to making profit. "The limited participation ...

CFD traders to reach 50,000

The number of Contracts for Difference (CFD) traders in Australia have doubled to 31,000 over the year with another 27,000 intending to trade them over the next 12 months, according to a new study. Leading finance research firm Investment Trends has ...

Analyse this: Dow Jones

... Our partnership with Progress and its market-leading Apama algorithmic trading platform reflects the increasing need for traders to make decisions as news happens in a more rapid, automated way," said Dennis Cahill, senior vice president and chief product ...