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Chinese Brokerages Tied to Uncertain Market (Law Blog - WSJ.com)

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:50:00 GMT

The good times of 2007 definitely haven't kept rolling this year for China's listed brokerages. But at least a couple of securities firms are managing to fare better than the Chinese stock market on which they depend.

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Egypt: Stock Market Decline (Global Voices Online)

Thu, 15 May 2008 23:18:41 GMT

Egyptian blogger Hossam el Hamalawy reports that the Egyptian stock market continues to decline

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BE Group AB: BE Group Holds Capital Markets Day: Targeting Profitable Growth Through Acquisitions and Service (Business Wire)

Thu, 15 May 2008 09:06:00 GMT

STOCKHOLM, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News:

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May 15, 2008 - Update: CPI and the Stock Market Over the Intermediate Term (CXO Advisory)

Thu, 15 May 2008 11:06:57 GMT

CPI data alone is not useful for intermediate-term trading of the broad stock market. A good three-month inflation forecast is apparently needed to exploit any intermediate-term relationship between CPI and stock prices.

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Online Investing and Stock Market (Investor's Iraq Forum)

Thu, 15 May 2008 21:50:36 GMT

Daily Market Commentary for May 15, 2008 from Millennium-Traders.Com (http://www.millennium-traders.com) Todays top stock pick for the trading session was China Architectural Engineering, Incorporated (NYSE: RCH) after yet another day of gains accompanied by active day trading action. Reported...

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Egypt: Stock Market Decline (Afrigator)

Thu, 15 May 2008 21:18:41 GMT

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SXC Health Solutions to present at the FBR Capital Markets 12th Annual Spring Investor Conference (PR News Wire )

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:00:00 GMT

LISLE, IL, May 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - SXC Health Solutions, Corp. ("SXC" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: , TSX: SXC), a leading provider of pharmacy benefits management services, announces that Mark Thierer, President and COO and Jeff Park, SVP Finance and CFO, will present at the FBR Capital Markets 12th Annual Spring Investor Conference at the Grand Hyatt in New York. SXC's presentation will take...

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KBW Announces Changes to KBW Capital Markets Index (KSX) (Business Wire)

Thu, 15 May 2008 21:05:00 GMT

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc., a full service investment bank that specializes in the financial services sector, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of KBW, Inc.

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MISSING: CBC story on historic record high Toronto Stock Market close (ProudToBeCanadian Blog)

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:59:44 GMT

Actually, sorry, this marks the 800th time the state-owned socialism-reliant CBC has purposely ignored historic record high closes of any stock market. This excellent news, pro-Canadian story of interest and great importance to millions upon millions of Canadians, but which the CBC doesn't want anybody to know about, can be found in the far-left, but occasionally not quite as utterly daft, Toronto...

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Aon Capital Markets Places Parametric Index Japanese Earthquake Catastrophe Bond (PR News Wire )

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:00:00 GMT

CHICAGO, May 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aon Corporation (NYSE: ) today announced that Aon Re Global's investment banking group, Aon Capital Markets, successfully completed the private placement of $300 million of principal at-risk variable rate notes for Muteki Ltd. The placement provides Munich Re with fully collateralized catastrophe protection for Japanese earthquake risk. (Logo: ) Zenkyoren,...

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Trichet: Reflections on the Current Financial Market Correction (Alea)

Thu, 15 May 2008 18:11:12 GMT

Speech by Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the ECB at the International Capital Market Association's Annual Conference. It is a great pleasure for me to speak at the invitation of the renowned International Capital Market Association on the occasion of its 40th Annual Conference. Little did you know back in June 2007, when the invitation was extended, [...]

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Art market faces jittery times as economy slows (MSNBC.com: Lifestyle)

Thu, 15 May 2008 18:46:58 GMT

That anyone is buying art right now might seem a minor miracle, what with stock markets struggling, credit tight, gas high, food expensive and consumer confidence tanking.

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Record Money Market Funds May Foretell Bull Market Says John Girouard (PR News Wire )

Thu, 15 May 2008 17:41:00 GMT

WASHINGTON, May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Panicked by recession talk, inflation, and swooning real estate values, investors are squirreling away record amounts of cash in the modern equivalent of the family mattress: money market funds. That could prove a harbinger of the next bull market, says author and financial adviser John E. Girouard. About $3.4 trillion languished in money market mutual funds as...

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Daily Market Commentary for May 15, 2008 (NewsCommentary)

Thu, 15 May 2008 16:45:21 GMT

Online Investing and Stock Market A positive trend to the markets today continued to provide the slow motion sluggish trading action that has been plaguing day traders and traders, as of recent trading sessions. Tomorrow will provide a huge sigh of relief by most traders and day traders as we are able to lay this quiet market to a rest. The markets have successfully posted gains over this past week...

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Stock Market Alerts: Aggressive Stock Traders Alert: MEVT! May 15, 2008 (Market Wire - Investment Opinion)

Thu, 15 May 2008 15:55:00 GMT

MIAMI, FL (MARKET WIRE) Stock Market Alerts' performance stock list includes: MSE Enviro-Tech Corp. (PINKSHEETS: MEVT), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), Google Incorporated (NASDAQ: GOOG), First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR).

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Citigroup moves Cap market chief to…Dubai (Shariah Finance Watch)

Thu, 15 May 2008 15:45:14 GMT

Citigroup to move capital markets chief to Dubai Bloomberg Published: May 15, 2008, 10:07 Dubai: Citigroup Inc. is expanding its debt markets business in Dubai by transferring its co-head of Europe, Middle East and African capital markets from London. Atiq Rehman, appointed co-head of the EMEA capital markets business on May 12, said he plans to move “by the [...]

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Stock Market Alerts: Special Alert Stock Watch: MEVT! May 15, 2008 (Market Wire - Investment Opinion)

Thu, 15 May 2008 15:15:00 GMT

MIAMI, FL (MARKET WIRE) Stock Market Alerts' performance stock list includes: MSE Enviro-Tech Corporation (PINKSHEETS: MEVT), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Evergreen Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: ESLR).

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Gauging Market Strength After a Move to New Highs (Seeking Alpha)

Thu, 15 May 2008 13:35:45 GMT

Brett Steenbarger submits: Whenever a market makes new price highs or lows over a period of time, I like to examine whether the number of individual stocks making fresh new highs or lows has expanded . This tells me whether the move has been broad-based or simply dominated by a limited number of sectors. Interestingly in the recent market, we've seen considerable sector rotation, with new highs lagging...

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Pronova BioPharma ASA: CAPITAL MARKETS DAY - PRESENTATIONS PART 2 (Market Wire - Pharmaceuticals and Biotech: Drugs)

Thu, 15 May 2008 10:19:00 GMT

LYSAKER, NORWAY (MARKET WIRE)

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Trichet says lack of transparency at root of market turmoil (SignalBlog)

Thu, 15 May 2008 14:53:53 GMT

European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said a lack of transparency is one of the main causes of the financial market turmoil of the past nine months. ‘The present turbulences have, once more, demonstrated that opacity regarding the stance of markets, financial instruments or financial institutions is a recipe for catastrophe,’ he said in a speech. ‘In...

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