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State Street Restricts Securities-Lending Funds
State Street's investment-management unit is restricting the ability of investors to withdraw money from securities-lending funds.
Wall Street Journal – Oct 11, 2008 01:38 AM [GMT] – comment?
State Street's investment-management unit is restricting the ability of investors to withdraw money from securities-lending funds.
Wall Street Journal – Oct 11, 2008 01:38 AM [GMT] – comment?
Markets Plunge in Latin America
Latin American stock markets declined Friday in volatile trading, accumulating losses for the year that are the worst in the region's history.
Wall Street Journal – Oct 11, 2008 01:38 AM [GMT] – comment?
Latin American stock markets declined Friday in volatile trading, accumulating losses for the year that are the worst in the region's history.
Wall Street Journal – Oct 11, 2008 01:38 AM [GMT] – comment?
Documents Show AIG Knew of Risks
AIG officials knew of potential problems in valuing derivative contracts long before the risky deals became an issue, documents show.
Wall Street Journal – Oct 11, 2008 12:54 AM [GMT] – comment?
AIG officials knew of potential problems in valuing derivative contracts long before the risky deals became an issue, documents show.
Wall Street Journal – Oct 11, 2008 12:54 AM [GMT] – comment?
Alaska committee finds Palin abused power: report
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- An Alaska state legislative committee found that Gov. Sarah Palin abused her authority when she fired the state's public safety commissioner, according to a media report late Friday. The Associated Press reported that the committee found that "a family grudge ... more »
MarketWatch.com – Oct 11, 2008 12:40 AM [GMT] – comment?
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- An Alaska state legislative committee found that Gov. Sarah Palin abused her authority when she fired the state's public safety commissioner, according to a media report late Friday. The Associated Press reported that the committee found that "a family grudge ... more »
MarketWatch.com – Oct 11, 2008 12:40 AM [GMT] – comment?
Corporate Bonds Slide Along With Stocks
Corporate bonds, which many investors often considered safer than stocks, have had their biggest declines ever in recent weeks.
Wall Street Journal – Oct 11, 2008 12:24 AM [GMT] – comment?
Corporate bonds, which many investors often considered safer than stocks, have had their biggest declines ever in recent weeks.
Wall Street Journal – Oct 11, 2008 12:24 AM [GMT] – comment?
Insiders Sell Shares Heavily Amid Margin Calls
A gyrating stock market has forced executives and directors of public companies to sell millions of dollars of their companies' shares because of margin calls and other credit-related problems.
Wall Street Journal – Oct 11, 2008 12:24 AM [GMT] – comment?
A gyrating stock market has forced executives and directors of public companies to sell millions of dollars of their companies' shares because of margin calls and other credit-related problems.
Wall Street Journal – Oct 11, 2008 12:24 AM [GMT] – comment?
Options Market Becomes Pricey
The options market has become an expensive place to do business in recent days, and that could be contributing to the wild swings in the stock market.
Wall Street Journal – Oct 11, 2008 12:24 AM [GMT] – comment?
The options market has become an expensive place to do business in recent days, and that could be contributing to the wild swings in the stock market.
Wall Street Journal – Oct 11, 2008 12:24 AM [GMT] – comment?
US to buy stake in banks, first since DepressionAP - The government will buy an ownership stake in a broad array of American banks for the first time since the Great Depression, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said late Friday, announcing the historic step after stock markets jolted still lower around the world despite all efforts to slow the se ... more »
Yahoo! – Oct 11, 2008 12:19 AM [GMT] – comment?
Wild Day Caps Worst Week Ever for Stocks
The Dow declined 128 points to 8451.19, capping the worst week in its 112-year history with its most volatile day ever. Down nearly 700 points early on, stocks gave up late gains as hopes for an international bank-rescue plan were overcome by a wave of selling.
Wall Street Journal – Oct 11, 2008 12:14 AM [GMT] – comment?
The Dow declined 128 points to 8451.19, capping the worst week in its 112-year history with its most volatile day ever. Down nearly 700 points early on, stocks gave up late gains as hopes for an international bank-rescue plan were overcome by a wave of selling.
Wall Street Journal – Oct 11, 2008 12:14 AM [GMT] – comment?
Toronto stocks drop as panic hits, commodities dive
Reuters - The main index of the Toronto Stock Exchange tumbled almost 6 percent on Friday as the latest wave of panic swept through global equity markets, wiping billions of dollars more from investor portfolios and pushing commodity prices sharply lower.
Yahoo! – Oct 11, 2008 12:08 AM [GMT] – comment?
Reuters - The main index of the Toronto Stock Exchange tumbled almost 6 percent on Friday as the latest wave of panic swept through global equity markets, wiping billions of dollars more from investor portfolios and pushing commodity prices sharply lower.
Yahoo! – Oct 11, 2008 12:08 AM [GMT] – comment?
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