Posts Tagged ‘Lehman’
IMF Intervention: Acceptable in the Short Term, But Not a Permanent Solution
March 27th, 2010 | 
Author: The dollar has been firm this week. The upbeat equity market could have supported the greenback: the Dow is now heading towards the 11000 mark, and would thus return to pre-Lehman levels. But the main impetus came from Europe. The to-ing and fro-ing in the eurozone on the issue of…
Short-selling: what exactly should be disclosed?
SOME 13 months ago, just after Lehman Brothers went bust and stocks all over the world were crashing, many fingers of blame were pointed in the direction of short-sellers – particularly those of a naked persuasion.
Such sellers were those who had no shares in their possession but sold anyway, as opposed to ‘covered’ short sellers who borrowed scrip to cover their sales.
In the world of high fina… more
Posted in Singapore Financial News | 
Tags: blame, bust, direction, fina, fingers, Lehman, lehman brothers, persuasion, possession, scrip, short sellers, SOME, stocks, World | 
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Minibond investors begin legal action
MORE than 165 investors who lost about $20million in total on Minibonds started legal action yesterday against three firms linked to the sale of the failed investment product.
Notice was served on the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Minibond Limited and Lehman Brothers Singapore in what it is hoped will serve as a test case.
They are bankrolling the action on behalf of five investors who lost about … more
Posted in Singapore Financial News |
Tags: action, Bank, bank of scotland, behalf, case, Investment, investment product, investors, Lehman, lehman brothers, Limited, Minibond, Minibonds, notice, product, RBS, Royal, royal bank of scotland, sale, Scotland, Singapore, test, test case, yesterday |
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Weekly Focus: Lehman’s One Year On
It is now one year since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, which filed for bankruptcy on 15 September 2008. It has been a year of an historic decline in economic activity and financial chaos. But it has also been a year of positive surprises once the crisis got ring-fenced and…
Posted in Forex Trading |
Tags: 15 september, activity, bankruptcy, chaos, collapse, crisis, decline, economic activity, financial chaos, Lehman, lehman brothers, September, surprises, year |
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Questions begin as summer ends on Wall Street
AS Wall Street prepares to get back to work tomorrow after today’s Labor Day holiday, which marks the unofficial end to the summer, the question investors face in what is likely to be a volatile month is who will be dominating the action, bulls or bears?
A year ago, investors returned from their end-of-summer weekend to face rampant speculation over Lehman Brothers’ fate and what would soon become… more
Posted in Singapore Financial News |
Tags: action, AS Wall, bulls, day, end, fate, holiday, investors, labor, labor day, Lehman, lehman brothers, month, question, rampant speculation, speculation, Street, summer, today, tomorrow, Wall Street, weekend, year |
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New rules in a post-Lehman world?
NEXT week marks the first anniversary of the shocking demise of United States investment bank Lehman Brothers – a calamitous event which dragged the global financial system to the brink of collapse.
Not surprisingly, the financial media all over the world has been working itself into a frenzy to commemorate the anniversary with verbose write-ups.
But take one glance at the buoyant stock market, an… more
Posted in Singapore Financial News |
Tags: anniversary, Bank, brink, brink of collapse, calamitous event, collapse, demise, event, frenzy, GLANCE, global financial system, Investment, investment bank, Lehman, lehman brothers, market, NEXT, stock, stock market, system, United States, UPS, verbose, week, World |
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