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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... according to the March SPI futures index, and after New York staged a late rally to come back from falls that followed the Bear Sterns fire sale. In London overnight, base metals were significantly lower. At 0726 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Bear Stearns a 'reasonable risk': JPMorgan

... that the group is taking reasonable risk and have built in an appropriate margin for error in the proposed acquisition of Bear Stearns. Local banking stocks are down today after news of JPMorgan Chase's merger with Bear Stearns, the investment banking ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2008
... institutions on Sunday to increase the cash available to the banking system, and JPMorgan Chase said it would buy rival bank Bear Stearns, which needed funding assistance last week to avert collapse. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had tumbled ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2008
... Ordinaries added 72.8 points, or 1.4 per cent, to 5288.5. NEW YORK - US stocks tumbled on Friday as an emergency rescue of Bear Stearns orchestrated by the US Federal Reserve revived fears about a deepening global credit crunch, triggering a massive ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
... voted in favour of a bid by a Canadian state pension fund to acquire a 40 per cent stake in the airport. NEW YORK - Shares of Bear Stearns Cos plunged Thursday amid worries that hedge funds and other traders are nervous about entering into long-term ...

Tagliaferro hits back at downgrade

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 FEB 2008
... Tagliaferro disagreed and said IML's investment strategy is unchanged and its funds were defensively positioned to withstand bear markets. "I have to disagree with Zenith's comments regarding the so-called perceived implementation risk, the changes are ...

Westpac Staff Super awards $50m to HFA

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2008
... of interest from asset consultants and institutional investors in HFA offerings, so I think [our efforts] are starting to bear fruit," said White. The HFA diversified investment fund is a highly diversified international absolute return fund of funds ...

AWU campaigns for opt-in super

... to push up our superannuation accounts is good social policy," he added. Howes said that ordinary Australians have had to bear the Reserve Bank's decision to raise interest rates three times in the past six months with a fourth one just around the corner. ...

Fear brings opportunity for the wise

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
... of more than 20 per cent are often an indication the market is close to rock bottom. Recent history suggests that gradual bear markets, or even when the markets fall rapidly, the bulk of stock prices falling quickly follows suit. Since 1991 there have ...

AXA's succession solutions

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
... report, practices operating 20 per cent under the industry profitability benchmark would struggle to reach their full value in bear markets. The report found prospective buyers become nervous about poor compliance auditing practices, inefficient data ...