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The credit default swaps market - a market that for years was kept out of view and away from any regulation - has suddenly turned into a pol...

British banks are proposing that the government help bail them out of losses from the credit crunch so they can resume lending, according to...

Here we are a week later, and guess what? Armageddon is again approaching. All week long, the credit-default swap spreads on Morgan Stanley ...

The Shanghai Stock Exchange issued on Saturday China’s first ever rules for supervision of retail stock investors, saying those who violate ...

Singapore would probably slip into a recession this quarter for the first time since 2002 as exports and manufacturing slumped and fewer tou...

Australia will spend A$4 billion (HK$25.8 billion) buying residential mortgage-backed securities to revive a debt market frozen by the globa...

Shares in bulk shipping companies fell as much as 11 per cent yesterday as hopes for a recovery in dry bulk freight rates dimmed amid a scal...

When astronauts Zhai Zhigang and Liu Boming get into their spacesuits and drift side by side in the orbit module, it will be hard to tell on...

HSBC, the largest mortgage lender in Hong Kong, will raise its interest rate for new homebuyers to offset higher funding costs stemming from...

SGX clarification is a response to brokers' fears over error trades PDF

Without the Paulson plan, or if the plan is so watered down and delayed, I have been saying all bets are off and we could be in for a huge s...

Property prices and rents in Asia's financial centres of Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo are set to fall as banks scale back hiring and i...

CHINA will not import iron ore from Brazil-based Vale in the short term, a finance newspaper reported today.

China’s cabinet agreed to let investors buy shares on credit and sell borrowed stock to help develop Asia’s second-largest market after pric...

Wall Street investment banks, or their remnants, eager for outside cash, have found some big buyers. On September 22, Mitsubishi UFJ, Japan’...

Wall Street is undergoing a reshuffling, and assets are on the table for financial firms of other counties to pick up. Japan-based Mitsubish...

They face rising premiums as debts mature amid frozen primary market PDF

They say that SGX move is too harsh on honest mistakes PDF

More than 150 prominent U.S. economists, including three Nobel Prize winners, urged Congress to hold off on passing a $700 billion financial...