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Aug 13, 2011

STOCK, Shares, NYSE News, Aug 13, 2011


Foreign Funds Buy Net 939 Million Rupees of Indian Equities
Bloomberg
They bought a net 568 million rupees of bonds, taking total flows into debt this year to 152.6 billion rupees. Overseas investors bought a record 1.33 trillion rupees of shares in 2010, helping fuel a 17 percent rally in the Bombay Stock Exchange's ...
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A look at economic developments around the globe
San Jose Mercury News
Sometimes stocks rose as investors cheered anti-crisis measures, such as the European Central Bank's decision to support the bonds of Italy and Spain. Shares collapsed as investors' mood soured because of concerns about the health of the global economy ...
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Stocks have solid gains after stock market's week of roller coaster 400-plus ...
New York Daily News
BY Elizabeth Lazarowitz Frank Masiello, left, works with traders hoping for a second-straight day of gains at the New York Stock Exchange Friday. In this current economic climate where do you feel safest investing? Bonds or convervative mutalfunds: ...
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New York Daily News
Stocks rise after wildest week on record
Crain's New York Business
At closing, stocks were up over 100 points. This comes during the first week on record that the Dow has seen four consecutive 400-point swings. Traders work the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (AP) - The mixed economic signals driving the stock ...
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4 Newly Rated Stock Mutual Funds to Buy
TheStreet.com
The fund seeks to allocate its investments among common stocks, bonds, and money market instruments. According to its most recent Securities and ExchangeCommission filing, US stocks held include Southwest Airlines (LUV), Honda Motor Co (HMC), ...
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TheStreet.com
BI may buy govt bonds using dollars to protect rupiah
Jakarta Post
Benchmark bonds also fell. Overseas funds sold $269 million more Indonesian shares than they bought in the last three days, exchange data show, contributing to this week's 1.4 percent drop in the Jakarta Composite Index, Bloomberg reported. ...
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The stock market this week: Five volatile days
gulfnews.com
The US debt downgrade caused the lowering of the Russian currency exchange rate. The outcome of one of the most volatile trading weeks in recent memory will go a long way to determining the growth of the global economy and the stability of the ...
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gulfnews.com
Market swings defy single explanation
Lexington Herald Leader
By Christine Hauser — New York Times News Service Trader Edward Curran smiled as he worked on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday. RICHARD DREW — APBuy Photo Stocks surged Thursday, with the broader market rising more than 4 percent. ...
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Lexington Herald Leader
CNH Tracker-'Dim sum' bonds resilient amid volatile markets
Reuters
The Hong Kong Stock Exchange said it will introduce a platform, called the Trading Support Facility, this year to facilitate trading in yuan-denominated shares in the secondary market. The sole RMB-denominated issue, Hui Xian REIT , has seen light ...
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CANADA FX DEBT-C$ steadies as stocks gain after US data
Reuters
But then equities turned around and the S&P and Dow went positive, and that's why the Canadian dollar strengthened," said David Bradley, director of foreign exchange trading at Scotia Capital. The Canadian dollar often moves in tandem with riskier ...
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Global rebound lifts local stocks
Sydney Morning Herald
Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Officer James Gorman and two other managers purchased 175000shares of the New York-based bank as the stock fell to the lowest level since March 2009, according to filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. ...
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P&F Ascending Triple Top Breakout - CFT, CIU, CNU, CV, CYE
Retirement Planning
The stock has a 52 week range of $102.60 – $109.17. At current market price, the market capitalization of the company stands at $869.18M and it has - outstanding shares. iShares Barclays Credit Bond Fund (the Fund) seeks investment results that ...
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ETF Report Card: Performance in the Face of Volatility
Morningstar.com
This increase was greater than the rise in overall trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange. Also, total shares outstanding for these top 100 ETFs fell a mere 0.6% from August 1 to August 9. These two data points highlight the fact that, ...
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Short selling ban spurs Europe rally
The National
Above, the Frankfurt stock exchange. A piecemeal ban on short-selling of financialstocks in Europe appeared to restore investor confidence yesterday as stocks rallied across the continent. France, Italy, Spain and Belgium imposed bans, which varied ...
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The National
Wall Street Trading Results Are a Mystery to Analysts as Markets Fluctuate
Bloomberg
By Michael J. Moore - Fri Aug 12 04:00:03 GMT 2011 Traders work on the floor of the New YorkStock Exchange. 1Photographer: Jin Lee/Bloomberg Traders work on the floor of the New YorkStock Exchange. 1Photographer: Jin Lee/Bloomberg Aug. ...
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Tata Motors skids as Q1 PAT rises just 0.55%
India Infoline.com
On BSE, 1.04 lakh shares were traded in the counter as against an average daily volume of 3.63 lakhshares in the past one quarter. The stock hit a high of Rs 850.25 and a low of Rs 825.60 so far during the day. The stock had hit a 52-week low of Rs ...
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Suffer the stock market's downslide? Not all. Some investors hit hard in 2008 ...
Chicago Tribune
A person who divided investments with half in a Standard & Poor's 500 stock market index fund and half in long-term US government bonds would have been back to even in less than three years. A person who invested $10000 just before the bear market ...
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Keep calm - and diversify!
Investors Chronicle
Strategic bond funds have flexible mandates that allow them to invest in 'junk', while there are also some exchange-traded funds that do so too. Which sectors do well in a low-growth environment? That's easy. All the obvious ones: tobacco, food retail, ...
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Dow finishes wild week on a high note
NDTV.com
The Nasdaq is up 15, or 0.6 per cent, to 2508. Two shares rose for every one that fell on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume was an above average 4.9 billion shares. Conflicting reports on retail sales and consumer sentiment sent the Dow up, ...
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Forecasting movements in a volatile market a mug's game, say economists
Vancouver Sun
By Kim Covert, Postmedia News August 12, 2011 2:39 PM Traders work on the floor of the New YorkStock Exchange (NYSE) just before the closing bell on August 12, 2011 in New York City. Global markets have continued to rise and fall throughout the week ...
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Oil fund continues to suffer
Views and News from Norway
“If one looks at the whole lifetime of the fund, the yield is 2.94 percent.” Meanwhile, things have been looking up slightly for the Oslo Stock Exchange after days of serious falls in shares over the previous weeks. The main index was up 3.4 percent to ...
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With debt climbing, Japan debates a tax hike
Washington Post
KIM KYUNG-HOON/REUTERS - An employee of the Tokyo Stock Exchange watches a stock index board as she waits for the opening of the stock market at the centre where it monitors stock trading, at its headquarters in Tokyo August 8, 2011. ...
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Pembrook Realty Capital files for IPO of up to $100 mln
Reuters
... the offering partially to acquire target assets that would produce taxable income and partially to acquire federally tax-exempt revenue bonds. The investment company plans to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "PRC. ...
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BoI examining banks' ability to withstand the crisis
Ha'aretz
The central bank is worried by the recent big losses on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, combined with the drop in corporate bonds, and wants to know if Israeli banks are facing a threat to their own stability. In addition, Israeli banks are also exposed ...
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Ha'aretz
In short, Europe's ban could worsen matters
Financial Times
A huge shock administered over the weekend was followed by dramatic central bank interventions, and then a huge stock market rally, prompted by a ban on short selling — the practice of borrowingshares and then selling them, to profit from any fall. ...
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Brazil Has Record Reserves: Over US$ 350 Billion
Brazzil Magazine
The increase is mainly due to the daily spot market purchases that the Central Bank is making to reduce the vast supply of US currency in the domestic market. By late July, out of the foreignexchange reserve surplus, which was US$ 346.144 billion, ...
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IRELAND, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece News, Aug 13, 2011

Prognosis for Europe: Not Good
Seeking Alpha
A quick rehash of the fundamentals: Greece and to a lesser extent Ireland, Italy, Ireland,Portugal, and Spain run excessive fiscal deficits and have much lower labor productivity than Germany. Generally this would be resolved through currency ...
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FINANCIAL News, Money, Banks, Economic and Financial Crisis, Aug 12, 2011

Norway's Oil Fund Posts Smallest Gain Before Stock Rout
Bloomberg
“Signs of weaker economic growth in the US and Europe and fears of a contagion from the European sovereign debt crisis reduced investors' risk willingness,” said Yngve Slyngstad, chief executive officer of Norges Bank Investment Management, ...
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Wholesale funding exposes banks to vulnerability
Korea Times
Banks have been moving to comply with the requests, as Hana Bank issued $400 million yen denominated bonds to secure its foreign exchange liquidity. Another bankofficial said, “Since the global financial crisis in late 2008, the banking sector has ...
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Korea Times
France feels the economic force of the credit ratings agencies
The Guardian
Photograph: Reuters It was the week in which the focus of the financial crisisswitched from the streets of New York and Washington to the boulevards of Paris. After roughing up the Dow Jones and Barack Obama, it was the turn of French stocks to be...
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The Guardian
Cheap but not cheerful
Reuters
Some European regulators responded to the unease by banning short sales of financial stocks, calming share markets on Friday [ID:nL3E7JC19I]. Jeremy Grantham, chief investment officer at USmoney manager GMO, remains focused on quality stocks that ...
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Deficit deal, financial turbulence pose challenge
Party for Socialism and Liberation
2, a new financial panic, the most dramatic since September 2008, broke out inglobal markets signaling a deepening of the economic crisis and more hardship for the working class. The first week saw some $2.5 trillion wiped off global stock market...
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Party for Socialism and Liberation
Large-cap shares recover slightly to end a horrible week
Ha'aretz
Bank shares were hit much harder than other large-cap shares, with Bank Leumi having the worst time due to the fact that it has the greatest exposure to the bonds of foreign financial institutions. Leumi's share fell 12.4% for the week. ...
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Ha'aretz
Market turbulences fueling growth risks
FXstreet.com
At the same time, the central bank is stepping up its unconventional measures. Successfully defusing the confidence crisis requires a coordinated approach by central banks, financialorganizations and policymakers. Yet, there is still little evidence ...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
Investment bank Morgan Stanely fell 5 percent amid concerns about US banks' exposure to thefinancial crisis in Europe and lawsuits related to shoddy mortgages sold before the housing bubble burst. JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. also ...
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Capital Market / Altshuler: Recent events are not 2008-style crisis
Ha'aretz
Are bank stocks a good place to put money? "The question is how much the bankswill be required to put aside in provisions for bad debts during this crisis. When there is chaos and the economic situation is less healthy, clearly the banks get hurt. ...
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Ha'aretz
Stocks up after mixed economic news
Long Island Business News
The sentiment survey was taken over the past 10 days, as Americans watched the markets leap and dive on news about Europe's spreading financial crisis, the first-ever downgrade of the USs long-term credit rating, signals that the job market improved ...
See all stories on this topic »Depression Decade in Europe if Italy Defaults: Analyst
CNBC.com
He thinks that the reputation of sovereign bonds as an investment has been severely damaged by the financial crisis. Markets are now awaiting a key meeting between Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel next week. Germany, the euro zone's biggest ...
See all stories on this topic »Yuan's Biggest Leap in Three Years May Herald Stimulus for Global Recovery
Bloomberg
During the global financial crisis, Premier Wen Jiabao's government halted the yuan's gains for almost two years, keeping the currency pegged to the dollar until June 2010. It has strengthened more than 6 percent since then. Reasons for allowing gains ...
See all stories on this topic »Newspaper Briefing, including 'UK banks safe in worst crisis since the ...
Proactive Investors UK
Chinas manipulation of its currency is a popular scapegoat both for the financial crisis, and for the extinction of US manufacturing. An appreciation is now plainly in Chinas urgent interests. And the rest of the world, including the US, is beginning ...
See all stories on this topic »Daimler Leads German 'Havens' as Carmakers Reel
Bloomberg
“German carmakers' financial reserves are in better shape than those of French or Italian manufacturers,” said Aleksej Wunrau, an analyst at BHF-Bank AG in Frankfurt. “That might give them an edge in a possible crisis scenario. ...
See all stories on this topic »As markets fall, our option gains grow to 500% in 30 days: Ticker Trax
Stockhouse
The Bank of England also downgraded its growth forecast for 2011 on a slower-than-expected global economic recovery. This created substantial doubt in how well equities would perform – creating even more selling pressure. It appears that given the wild ...
See all stories on this topic »100 Events That Changed Business: 1900-2000
TheStreet.com
While the crisis would be expensive, it would be largely resolved by the early '90s, and the USfinancial industry would be healthy going forward. The Japanese can only look on enviously. Forced by the Justice Department and Judge Harold Green to give ...
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Iraq foots the bill for its own destruction
Salon
The policies being implemented as a result of this contrived budget crisis are deflationary. For non-economists, as much as inflation has been touted as a majorfinancial problem over the last 30 years, deflation is widely acknowledged to beEconomic ...
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Salon
Cutting through the gloom: 10 reasons to be cheerful
Financial News
Recruitment specialists told Financial News this week that salaries for mid-level bankers had risen between 30-80% since the financial crisis. The economic world may look bleak, but companies on the whole have more cash on their balance sheets than ...
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Financial News
Update 9 – Global Economies Heading For Turbulence, Watch Out China
The Temasek Review
Bank of Korea bought bullion for the first time recently – its first purchase of gold since the Asian currency crisis of 1997-1998 as gold price keeps hitting new peaks. Central bankers are fearful of the brittle global economic recovery and the ...
See all stories on this topic »Analysis- Global inflation - the dog that doesn't and won't bark
Reuters UK
True, the spread between 10-year nominal and inflation-linked US Treasury yields, a key indicator of inflation expectations, is much higher than in early 2009 when fear of deflation was raging at the height of the global financial crisis. ...
See all stories on this topic »EU Heading for Eurobond Clash Amid German Dread Over Looming Fiscal Union
Bloomberg
12 (Bloomberg) -- Myles Bradshaw, a money manager at Pacific Investment Management Co., discusses France's credit rating and default risk, the European sovereign debt crisis and European Central Bank policy. He speaks from London with Maryam Nemazee on ...
See all stories on this topic »Europe crisis won't lead to repeat of Lehman: Magnus
The Daily Star
In September 2008, he called for the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bankof England to cut interest rates to prevent the financial crisis from worsening, a step they took two weeks later. The eurozone is facing “much more than ...
See all stories on this topic »US stocks rise after mixed economic news
Westport-News
Shares have swung by hundreds of points each day this week as traders react to news about the economy, Federal Reserve policy and a financial crisis in Europe that could threaten US banks. High-speed trading by computers has contributed to the ...
See all stories on this topic »Lords hear statement on Global Economy
DeHavilland (press release) (subscription)
Already, with prospective growth in the UK being downgraded by every respected economic agency, the deficit forecast is rising, not falling. The crisis in the financial markets has shifted from fears about deficits to fears about stagnation. ...
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Friday Newspaper Review - Irish Business News and International Stories ...
FinFacts Ireland
French people trust German chancellor Angela Merkel and US president Barack Obama more than their own president Nicolas Sarkozy to tackle economic and financial crises, a poll has found. The poll, which was published yesterday as shares in French banks ...
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EUROZONE Debt Crisis News, Auig 12, 2011

Asia banks keep watch over Europe debt crisis
AFP
Singapore's DBS Bank said it was monitoring the situation in Europe closely, but stressed that its exposure was minimal. "As part of our overall risk management framework, DBS has assessed the potential risks relating to a debt crisis in theeurozone," ...
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