 Reuters Buying from the state pension fund, retail and institutional investors helped trim early losses. South Korea's National Pension Service (NPS) said it was considering revising its August management plan to boost domestic stock buying. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Wall Street bloodbath wipes out Philippine gains Inquirer.net The peso-exchange and Treasury bond market have so far been hardly affected by the turmoil, he noted. On Monday, local T-bill rates fell across the board at the government's primary auction. Despite the hefty declines in the local stock market, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Stocks Soar Most in Two Years, S&P 500 Up 4.8% Bloomberg Four years after BNP Paribas SA marked the start of a financial crisis by freezing withdrawals from investment funds because it wasn't able to value subprime mortgage bonds, a reduction of the US debt rating and escalating sovereign woes in Europe show ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| India Rupee Off Lows On Local Stock Pullback; Bonds Off Highs Wall Street Journal The Bombay Stock Exchange's Sensitive Index fell 0.8%, to end at 16857.91 after recovering from intraday lows of 16432.00. Still, "short-term sentiment for the Indian rupee remains weak. Foreignfunds will continue to pull from the Indian stocks on ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Romanian, Serbian Shares Lead Declines on Balkan Stock Markets Bloomberg “The stock plunges are the result of a long streak of declines, especially in the US, and the lack of liquidity and small number of investors on the Bucharest Stock Exchange translates into very big drops,” Florin Irimin, a Bucharest- based broker at ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Volatile Wall Street shares bounce with the Dow index jumping 430 points The Australian "We're still so painfully oversold from the previous few sessions," said Keith Bliss, senior vice-president at Cuttone & Co, a brokerage on the New York Stock Exchange floor. "But the downdraft following the Fed statement shows you how temperamental ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| US Stocks Surge In Volatile Session As Fed Pledges To Keep Rates Low Wall Street Journal "The key is whether this is a sustained recovery or just a sign of bargain hunters coming in and picking up beaten-down stocks." Investors traded 8.93 billion shares in New York Stock Exchangecomposite volume, the second biggest volume day of the year ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Global Bonds Gain $132 Billion Amid Stock Rout Bloomberg By Sarah McDonald - Tue Aug 09 11:48:51 GMT 2011 Traders work on the floor of the New YorkStock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US. Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US. Photographer: Scott Eells/Bloomberg Aug. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Taiwan Bonds Rally, Currency Drops on Global Recovery Concern Bloomberg Foreign funds slashed their holdings of the island's shares by $1.1 billion today, the heaviest net sales in almost four years, exchange data show. The benchmark stock index fell 0.8 percent, taking its loss for the past six days to 14.7 percent, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Indian Market Ends Off Day's Low RTT News Capital markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India today allowed foreign investors to invest up to $10 billion in mutual fund equity schemes, a move that will further liberalize the portfolio investment route and widen the foreign ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| CANADA FX DEBT-C$ bounces off par after Fed, recovers 2 cents Reuters The rise mirrored a rally in North American stock markets that drove the Toronto Stock Exchange'sS&P/TSX composite index .GSPTSE up 3.76 percent to its biggest one-day rally in more than two years. [MKTS/GLOB] "The Fed has given a very clear signal ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| High-Yield ETFs Hit as Investors Flock to Treasuries Seeking Alpha “Junk” bond exchange traded funds such as SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bond ETF (JNK) and iShares iBoxx High Yield Corporate Bond Fund (HYG) have sold off in August with investors scaling back risk in all parts of their portfolios. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Fear spreads to Europe's stock markets Taipei Times A trader keeps an eye on the German DAX at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, yesterday. The fear that has gripped Europe's sovereign debt market for months took root in its stockmarkets as investors increasingly worried yesterday about ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Philippine Peso, Bonds Decline as Funds Shun Emerging Markets Bloomberg The Philippine Stock Exchange Index declined 4.5 percent, its biggest daily drop in more than two years, while government bonds also fell. “It's risk-off as investors adjust their global positions with what's going on in the US and Europe,” said Roland ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Worst 40-Year Bond Sale Shows Cash King as Investors Flinch: Japan Credit Bloomberg The Chicago Board Options Exchange SPX Volatility Index, the VIX, surged to 48 on Aug. 8, the highest since May 2010. The benchmark for US stock options is known as Wall Street's fear gauge because it typically increases as stocks fall. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| India Ministry Sees Volatility in Stocks for the Next Few Days Bloomberg “When global uncertainties are pretty high, markets will remain volatile,” said Kaushik Dani, a Mumbai-based fund manager at Peerless Mutual Fund, which has $1.1 billion in stocks and bonds. The Bombay Stock Exchange Sensitive Index fell 0.5 percent at ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Alternative Funds Can Calm Investors Fox Business "Managed futures funds take long and short positions in futures contracts in all kinds of asset classes," says Papagiannis. Managed futures funds are not correlated to the bond or equity markets, so they can perform quite well when the stock or bond ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Stocks soar after Fed pledges low rates into '13 San Jose Mercury News By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer A television screen at the post of specialist Stephen Ruiz, left, displays the decision of the Federal Reserve, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011. The Federal Reserve said Tuesday ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mortgage-Bond 'Pain' Not Fully Seen in Results of Holders, Ellington Says Bloomberg Ellington Financial LLC rose 39 cents to $18.39 at 4:15 pm in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. Investors have lost 8.9 percent, assuming reinvested dividends, since the company's $101.3 million initial public offering in October, according to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Market panic hits peso BusinessWorld Online The Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) plunged for the second straight trading day yesterday, losing 4.02% or 174.21 points to 4157.03. The main index had dropped by 2.4% or 106.31 points to 4331.24 on Monday. Other stock markets in Asia saw ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Bond Risk Reaches 2009 High as S&P Spurs Resources Rout: Australia Credit Bloomberg Every stock in the measure retreated for the first time since at least 1996 and Bank of America Corp. tumbled 20 percent. Global equities tumbled and European shares entered a bear market. The Aussie, the world's fifth-most traded currency, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Run, Ride or Buy? What Should Investors Do? Wall Street Pit The S&P 500 Stock Index is a widely recognized capitalization-weighted index of 500 common stockprices in US companies. The Philadelphia Stock Exchange Gold and Silver Index (XAU) is a capitalization-weighted index that includes the leading companies ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Shares plunge deeper as sell-off continues Jakarta Post The government is also ready to buy back government bonds using a number of financial sources, such as the state budget, state standby reserves as well as state companies' emergency funds,” State-Owned Enterprises Minister Mustafa Abubakar said on ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Slim Bonds Beating Government Notes on Push for Safest Debt: Mexico Credit Bloomberg Mexico's IPC stock index fell the most in almost three years yesterday, while yields on the benchmark peso bonds due in 2024 rose the most since June. Mexico sends about 80 percent of its exports to the US America Movil, the biggest wireless carrier in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Dealmaking at Risk as Market Plunge Threatens Best Performance Since 2007 Bloomberg By Jeffrey McCracken and Lee Spears - Tue Aug 09 18:30:32 GMT 2011 Pedestrians look at electronic stock boards at the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX Ltd.) headquarters in Sydney on Aug. 9, 2011. Pedestrians look at electronic stock boards at the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Live blog: Fed decision prompts return of 'flight to safety' Washington Post (blog) Stock markets for two countries under fire from debt-weary investors — Greece and Italy — also moved higher, with the Athens Stock Exchange general index advancing .2 percent and Italy's FTSE MIB index moving up .5 percent. Spain, however, continued ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Stalling economy keeps stocks in a steep slide STLtoday.com A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange before close on Monday, Aug. 8, 2011 in New York. The Dow Jones industrials closed down 634 points, or 5.5 percent, to 10809 Monday. It was the first time the Dow fell below 11000 since ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Investor panic spurs market plunge Montreal Gazette By CHRISTINE DOBBY and JOHN SHMUEL, Financial Post August 9, 2011 At the New York Mercantile Exchange, US crude futures fell more than four per cent on concerns about economic growth. Investor panic sent American and Canadian stock markets plunging ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| US Federal Reserve set to boost stimulus gulfnews.com Regional stock markets followed global cues Tuesday with every exchange in the Gulf posting losses. Saudi Arabia's Tadawul All Share Index, the Arab world's most liquid bourse, and the Dubai Financial Market both hit five month lows, as did Qatar and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Avoid Racing for the Sidelines: Spread Out Risk, Disregard Emotional Swings Seeking Alpha Ultimately, the cash in our bank accounts and the US government bond mutual funds in the IRAs of our country's retirees are nothing more than pools of loans secured by the “full faith and credit of the US government.” Since the end of World War II, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Blumenthal takes S&P to task over US credit rating downgrade Middletown Press “They contributed to the fiscal crisis by giving AAA ratings to mortgage-backed bonds when they were, in fact, virtually worthless.” Blumenthal was referring to S&P's favorable analyses, and those of the other two rating agencies, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Bernanke May Move to Boost Confidence Amid Financial Turmoil - Fullermoney Proactive Investors UK Hedge fund managers and pension funds worried about whether CDS are fit for purpose but who still want to express a bearish view have probably been avoiding the CDS market since late July and been more active in shorting the bonds of countries such as ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Get Ready for Great Recession 2.0 Seeking Alpha Since opportunity is the flip side of danger, here are a couple of exchange-traded funds to consider as we head toward the Great Recession 2.0. While Treasury bonds could take a short-term hit in response to the credit downgrade, it's likely to be ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Investing in the stock market crisis: savers without losing too ... By B.B W orld's slide in the stock markets, the indices currently through the floor. Many savers do not feel affected, after all, they do not have any shares held. But even there, where no obvious stamp of “exchange” emblazoned often is inside Exchange. ... They stuck mostly in bonds and other low-risk fixed-income securities, mostly in Europe. This “On-number-security policy,” they are required by law. Speculative transactions are therefore forbidden. But a small portion of the ... |
| More than One Way to Own Investments "You can own individual stocks or bonds, buy shares of a mutual fund that holds stocks or bonds(or both), or buy shares of an Exchange Traded Fund," said ... urbanext.illinois.edu/news/news.cfm?NewsID=25977 |
| Corporate Bonds ETF | Bonds ETF Corporate Bonds ETF – What Makes ETF Bond Funds So Appealing? Posted on August 3 , 2011 |... Shares of ETFs are investments in the securities of the benchmark. ... Its equity means you can buy and sell stock exchanges such as NYSE. ... bondsetf.org/.../corporate-bonds-etf-what-makes-etf-bond-fun... |
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