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Investing In ADRs: The Most Powerful Way To Reduce Market Risk

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:56:31 GMT

It's official: You can reduce your investment risk simply by chucking darts at a list of stocks, then buying them. That's if you believe a Nobel economist, of course. His crude "experiment" was the start of "modern portfolio theory" decades ago. The downside, however, was that with a reduction of risk came a dampening of profits. So scratch that idea.[More...]

The Best And Worst Of Foreign Bank Stocks

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:14:00 GMT

Maldives Island Beach Last week was one of the worst weeks for many of the world’s stock market indices. The UK’s FTSE 100 was down a massive 26% from the previous week. France’s CAC and Germany’s DAX also plunged over 20% for the week. The Nikkei Index of Japan lost 24%.Here in the US, the Dow plummeted 18% for the week, the worst in its history.The S&P 500 Index also declined 18% for the week.Financial stocks were some of the worst performers last[More...]

Dummy Trade of the Day - Apple Inc. - Jan 25 2008 12:54AM

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:48:44 GMT

AAPL - wide earnings gap. The setup felt similar to my RIM.TSX trade from Monday. After gapping lower, price carves out a tight sideways pattern until the down sloping 5 period ema catches up. We had two

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TBMA to Charge for Quotes

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:49:00 GMT

Jul. 13--The Thai Bond Market Association plans to begin charging institutional investors a fee for using bond quotes from Oct 1.
Institutional investors, such as fixed-income fund managers, will be charged the equivalent of 0.0001 percent of a fund's net asset value to access bond quotes.
Nattapol Chavalitcheevin, president of the Thai Bond Market Association, said fund managers may alternatively choose to pay a fixed fee, possibly 500,000 baht per year, for real-time quotes for more than 1,000 securities to calculate their fund positions.

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Corporate Issues Set to Hit B300bn Record

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:50:00 GMT

Jul. 11--Corporate debt issues are expected to reach an all-time record this year, as local firms take advantage of low interest rates to refinance their debt and lock in capital for future expansion.
New debenture issues could reach 300 billion baht this year, topping the record set last year of 280 billion, said the Thai Bond Market Association.
"In the first half alone, new debt totalled 214.628 billion baht from 63 issues," said Nattapol Chavalitcheevin, the ThaiBMA president.

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Retailers Continue Investment Despite Strife

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:47:00 GMT

Apr. 17--Retailers will continue their investment plans in Thailand this year despite falling consumer sentiment in light of the recent red-shirt protests.
Aggressive marketing campaigns will be launched to boost the confidence of local shoppers and to attract foreign tourists.
Busaba Chirathivat, senior vice-president for corporate communications at Central Retail Corporation (CRC), urged the government to increase the Tourism Authority of Thailand's (TAT) budget to revive the country's image.

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Corporate Bond Issues Surge Seven-Fold

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:47:00 GMT

Mar. 19--Corporate bond issuance in the first quarter totalled 73.5 billion baht, up 655 percent from the same period the year before, according to the Thai Bond Market Association.
Daily average outright trading also rose 39 percent over the past year.
Total new issues for the year to mid-March were 2.4 trillion baht, up from 1.81 trillion in the same period in 2008.

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Banco Macro Announces Availability of Form 20-F

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:46:00 GMT

Banco Macro S.A. announced today that its previously filed Form 20-F and the corresponding audited financial statements as of December 31, 2008 can be accessed and downloaded from the English version of the "Inversores" section of the Company's website located at www.macro.com.ar. In addition, such documents can be found at the SEC webpage in the Section "Search for Company Filings", under the CIK code No.0001347426.[More...]

Banco Macro Announces Results For the Third Quarter of 2008

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:02:00 GMT

Banco Macro S.A. announced today its results for the third quarter period ended September 30, 2008 . All figures are in Argentine pesos and have been prepared in accordance with Argentine GAAP.[More...]

Banco Macro Announces Results for the Second Quarter of 2008

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:39:00 GMT

Banco Macro S.A. announced today its results for the second quarter period ended June 30, 2008 . All figures are in Argentine pesos and have been prepared in accordance with Argentine GAAP.[More...]

Banco Macro S.A. Files Annual Report on Form 20-F

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:37:00 GMT

The management of Banco Macro S.A. announced that it filed its annual report on Form 20-F on June 30, 2008, for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007 , with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission . The 2007 Annual Report can be accessed by visiting either the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov or Banco Macro's website at http://www.macro.com.ar. In addition, shareholders may receive a hard copy of Banco Macro's complete audited financial statements free of charge by requesting a copy within a reasonable period of time from Banco Macro's Investor Relations website.[More...]

Banco Macro Announces Results for the First Quarter of 2008 - Jun 1 2008 11:01AM

Thu, 08 May 2008 21:28:00 GMT

Banco Macro S.A. announced today its results for the first quarter period ended March 31, 2008 . All figures are in Argentine pesos and have been prepared in accordance with Argentine GAAP.[More...]

Banco Macro S.A. (NYSE: BMA; Buenos Aires: BMA) Cordially Invites You to Participate in its First Quarter 2008 Earnings Conference Call - Jun 1 2008 11:00AM

Fri, 02 May 2008 21:05:00 GMT

Banco Macro S.A. cordially invites you to participate in its First Quarter 2008 Earnings Conference Call.[More...]