The economic and business landscape for 2008 is being reshaped as the election campaign approaches its final week and there’s nothing Kevin Rudd or John Howard can say or do to change things, writes Glenn Dyer.
Subprime mortgage market
Morning Market Report
The highlights and lowlights of this morning’s sharemarket activity.
IMF signals the credit squeeze is far from over
Just when you thought it was safe to go back and put in new share orders… comes a report from the IMF that the private equity market is at much at risk of a meltdown as the sub-prime mortgage market, with potentially greater consequences for global investment.
The inflation bears come out to play in US
With the oil price hitting new highs, the US dollar continuing to tank and US 10 year bond yields rising yet again, investors have turned their attention back to inflation, forcing down the Dow and other major indices.
Morning Market Report
The highlights and lowlights of this morning’s sharemarket activity.
Morning Market Report
The highlights and lowlights of this morning’s sharemarket activity.
Morning Market Report
The highlights and lowlights of this morning’s sharemarket activity.
The US credit crunch bites, markets fall
For months the likes of Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson (ex Goldman Sachs) and any number of shrills for the bulge bracket banks on Wall Street have been telling investors that the subprime mortgage market bust would not have a wider impact.
Morning Market Report
The highlights and lowlights of this morning’s sharemarket activity.
Morning Market Report
The highlights and lowlights of this morning’s sharemarket activity.
In the US the subprime sky is falling … here too?
Slowly but surely a credit crunch is creeping up on us, driven by the spiralling collapse of the subprime mortgage market and associated credit derivatives in the US.
Morning Market Report
The highlights and lowlights of this morning’s sharemarket activity.
