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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
The Australian stock market has received a positive lead, with Wall Street shooting higher on reports the federal government may create an entity that will take over banks' bad debt. At 0738 AEST, the Sydney Futures Exchange's December Share Price Index ...

HBOS surrenders to Lloyds TSB

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
The worsening credit crunch may be about to generate a first merger of prominent commercial banks, with Lloyds TSB close to finalising terms for a takeover of HBOS. Britain's government and Financial Services Authority are encouraging the merger, according ...

Tyndall finds value

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
The overnight bloodshed on Wall Street may have carved 3.5 per cent from the S&P/ASX200, but the turmoil has produced some fantastic buying opportunities as valuations in Aussie equities begin to improve, says Tyndall. Tyndall is sticking to its guns ...

America on its knees

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
The bloodbath continues. The Federal Reserve's US$85 billion bailout of American Insurance Group (AIG) proved insufficient to calm the financial market panic that appears to be increasing by the day. The overnight sell-off saw more than three years' ...

Challenger goes public

THE SHEET  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
The structured finance sector of the domestic debt capital market saw most activity last week, in terms of issuance and rating actions. The sector, and primarily RMBS, has made something of a comeback this month after a relatively quiet August. Issuance ...

ASIC freezes $1m investor funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is protecting more than $1 million invested in an alleged illegal investment scheme after gaining an interim order from the Supreme Court of New South Wales. The court order freezes offshore ...

ASFA proposes asset classification standards

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
A background paper on how super funds should classify assets in their diversified investment options, prepared by the Association of the Super Funds of Australia (ASFA), has recommended funds and research groups standardise how they classify assets ...

Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
'This is a once in a half century, probably once in a century type of event.' (Alan Greenspan). Are we headed for a repeat of the global depression of the 1930s? This might sound too alarmist but indeed, quite a possibility as one giant US financial ...

Whac-a-mole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2008
This Week's Market Movers (15 - 19 Sep 2008) The market jubilation that followed the US Treasury's rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac early last week quickly faded as problems in Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutual and American International Group ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2008
The Australian stock exchange was weaker at noon as US financial sector uncertainty continued to affect local banks and insurers. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was 108.4 points lower, or by 2.21 per cent, at 4795.4, while the broader All Ordinaries ...