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30Aug

Stocks Stumble from Four-week Highs

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After a report indicating that US house prices would go on falling and a survey showing that European economic confidence plunged greatly in August, the S&P 500 fell from a four-week high in early trading and Europe’s equity market recovery stuttered.
Before glum economic news in Europe and the US weighed on markets, Asian equity markets [...]

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Far from triggering an exodus from Treasuries, S&P’s controversial downgrade of US credit is now sharpening appetites, as investors go on to view US government debt as a bolt hole in volatile global markets and newcomers pile in too.
According to Bank of America Merrill Lynch, the downgrade ranks the US below more than a dozen [...]

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Several factors are leading Goldman Sachs economists to keep their relatively constructive commodity views over the next year intact in spite of the economic downgrades and apparent rising market concerns on the commodity outlook:
1. Global growth expectations for 2012 remain at 4.4% even after GS economic downgrades。 It is sufficiently high to tighten key commodities.
2. Economic growth [...]

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The US bond market is now facing a potentially testing July, if the impasse over raising the Federal debt ceiling fail to end up in a deal and then threaten the risk of a default by the Treasury as a result.
As the consensus in the bond market is for a last minute deal before the [...]

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03May

Nasdaq Makes Bid for NYSE

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The protracted battle for ownership of Wall Street giant NYSE Euronext took a fresh twist as rival exchange operator Nasdaq OMX and partner IntercontinentalExchange tabled a takeover bid of £6.6bn .
The pair have again been declined by the NYSE board in favour of a competing offer from Deutsche Boerse. However, Nasdaq and ICE have gone [...]

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