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Some major Asian stock markets edged downward Tuesday morning as swine flu fears continued to hit stocks across the globe.

With a tanking economy, up-and-down stock markets, ever growing unemployment, all this doom and gloom leaves us broke and depressed.

But recent rallies notwithstanding, Laidi said the jury is still out on whether world stock markets and the global economy have hit bottom.

But, with much of this wealth tied up in horrific stock markets, tycoons are a looking a little more threadbare.

Fan said the slump in major stock markets was a correction of earlier overheating that would have a limited influence on other economies.

The bank said the trading loss was due to market turmoil in May and June, when global stock markets fell sharply.

When stock markets fall, as they did a year ago, cautious executives slash spending on everything, including share repurchases.

The stock markets of the small, exporting Asian nations have continued to attract investors, helped by surging Chinese equities.

I realize it seems odd to say that of events characterized by panic, a credit crunch, slowing growth and falling stock markets.

He had lost money in the falling stock markets and was hoping to recoup some of his losses when a businessman called to offer him a deal.

By now every investor on the planet is trying to handicap what happens when China's scorching-hot stock markets finally start to cool off.

Stock markets across the globe have to be close to a turning point.

Asian stock markets, despite a recent rally, have tumbled in recent months on concerns over the state of the U. S. economy.

S. market is closed to that of stock markets and where significant price spillover effect exists.

Mr Smithers shows that this conclusion is empirically false: stock markets exhibit "negative serial correlation" .

Stock markets closed more than 3% down in London and Frankfort and 4. 6% down in Paris.

Stock markets remained in upheaval, with the general downward trend punctuated by events like an 11-percent gain in the Dow on Oct.

while it's more likely something of mobility with the grown up stock markets and banks.

It is only among the worst performers of the decade that stock markets from more developed economies feature prominently.

Global stock markets saw their first big wobble of the year as evidence of problems in the US subprime mortgage market began to mount.

After a year of gut-wrenching losses, stock markets around the world recorded a positive day amid light trading to close out 2008.

But generally stock markets do seem to start their recoveries fairly early in a recession.

Since confronting fears of complete calamity back in early March, stock markets around the world have recovered smartly.

Asian stock markets fell along with those in the rest of the world, but the region's economies continued to power ahead.

But 2010, in relative terms, has not been a great year for Bric stock markets.

Asian stock markets had a strong, if volatile, year with China leading the pack as investors bet on the region's continued growth prospects.

He estimated that at least a dozen smaller Indian companies would list on overseas stock markets in the next 12 months.

Airports and stock markets have been closed, but there is an urgent desire to return to normality, to carry on and not be cowed.

The debt crisis has bruised stock markets, but analysts so far see a limited impact on the U. S. economy.

Around the globe, major stock markets are suffering from the credit crunch arising from the sub-prime mortgage crisis in the United States.

Talk of such a comprehensive package has helped turn sentiment around in stock markets this week following last week's turmoil.

Increased equity issuance by companies that have wisely taken advantage of the current rally has not stopped stock markets from rising.

Diversification has been a washout: stock markets have been almost perfectly correlated with each other.

The capital raisings are among the largest in Asia- Pacific since regional stock markets bounced back to life in March.

And if stock markets end up renewing their sharp slide, he said, current commodity prices may not seem so cheap.

As the securities started to fall in value, investors around the world sold out of bond and stock markets.

On stock markets, sentiment was also frayed and in London the FTSE 100 index of bluechips closed at its lowest level for seven weeks.

BEIJING : Chinese stock markets took a tumble this week, just as economists were saying the bubble would burst.

Much of the rest is believed to be going into stock markets around the world.

The meeting took place against a background of crashing stock markets, panicky interest-rate cuts and a massive bank fraud.

But there will be another factor weighing on stock markets: companies are going to have to issue increasing amounts of equity.

After three years of big gains, many stock markets have tumbled by 10% or more in less than ten days.

Global stock markets have been collapsing since the beginning of 2008.

Prof Sornette, author of Why Stock Markets Crash (2004), is essentially trying to better understand the dynamics of bubbles.

Stock markets in Asia have followed the downward trend set by Wall Street as fears mount over the state of the ailing global economy.

For starters, analysts have come to realize that China's stock markets are still tangential to its real economy.

Central bank liquidity is not, of course, the only factor that has driven prices higher, particularly in the stock markets.

As borrowing rates in other countries began to rise last week, world stock markets slid and the euro lost value against other currencies.

People often compare stock markets to economic "barometer" , which means there is some relationship between them.

The stock markets have been shut as authorities cope with one of the worst terror attacks ever in the country.

Greek bond and stock markets soared yesterday in what has been a roller-coaster ride for investors this week.

The latest negotiable market cap of the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets fell 5. 3% from a week earlier, data showed.

The tick-up in stock markets also helped initial public offerings resurface.

After being issued, this package immediately became the focus of the worldwide attention, and directly drove up the global stock markets.

The Indian stock markets have been falling since worries rose about a slowdown in the U. S. economy earlier this year.

Asian stock markets have continued to rally after strong gains in the US and Europe on Monday.

Most of those have been mainland Chinese companies looking to take advantage of buoyant stock markets to raise funds for expansion.

Stresses rippled through debt and stock markets despite measures taken by European leaders last week to help restore investor confidence.

I do not buy the argument that gold shares are just shares and stock markets are falling at the moment.

China's stock markets have had a fabulous first six months of the year.

Now stock markets all over the place were delighted to hear it, and not just in Asia.

Prospects of a global economic recovery has helped drive a rebound in stock markets since they reached their low for the year in March.

and the other is called "Bear Market" , which refers to the stock markets with continual-declining stock price.

The value of stock markets around the world has fallen by almost half and is now about $30 trillion below its peak.

"Are Chinese investors ready for that? " says Fraser Howie, investment analyst and expert on Chinese stock markets.

But both in stock markets and real estate, at least when viewed from a distance, the risks seem real.

Indeed, investment bankers transformed stock markets into a surreal circus.

The U. S. stock markets held up quite well for 2007 in the face of the rising distress, thanks to two strong macroeconomic trends.

Record falls in Asian stock markets show that confidence, or the lack of it, knows no borders in a globalised world.

Optimists point out that, around the world, economic indicators are pointing up and stock markets are recovering.

But do not confuse that possibility with an all-clear sign for the real economy, stock markets or the political cycle.

Americans are pushing the U. S. saving rate higher after severe declines in household wealth from the turmoil in housing and stock markets.

Banking regulators are clearly worried that some loan proceeds continue to be improperly diverted into property and stock markets.

US stock markets already have so- called circuit breakers , designed to create a time- out during periods of unusual volatility .

At present, the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets have been significantly weaken, many institutions will try to shipment.

Shares in Asian banks, such as Mizuho and Australia's Macquarie, have had a miserable month, pushing down the region's stock markets.

That comes through clearly when looking at measures of momentum in different stock markets around the world.

What an investor is buying into is the growth of the whole region, which includes the currencies as well as the stock markets.

The new bout of turbulence in Shanghai has brought to an end one of the more remarkable episodes in the history of stock markets.

Alternatively, in the long term, looking in stabler stock markets for companies that export to China might make sense.

"India has gone from being one of the most expensive stock markets in Asia to one of the cheapest, " says Mr Duggal.

China launched its stock markets in Shanghai and Shenzhen less than two decades ago as part of reforms designed to foster growth.

Despite recent signs of improvement in consumer spending, housing and stock markets, the economy is still burdened by slack.

On the face of it, China has become the living proof that stock markets are almost perfectly efficient.

They decided to establish a trio of agencies to regulate European banking and stock markets and to initiate a joint financial policy.

Asian stock markets are trading at about half their levels a year ago.

Given that, investors will eye further moves by emerging governments to help local banks and bolster stock markets.

The Group of Seven meeting capped a week in which global stock markets suffered losses of 15 to 18 percent.

Most leading stock markets suffered only modest falls at worst and there was limited evidence of rising risk aversion in currency markets.

Stock markets plunged, and the world's economies headed into the worst crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

That's certainly not at all clear now. Most days recently, all the world's stock markets have moved in the same direction: down.

The shakiness in world stock markets did not help the dollar.

The venture was conceived during a time when China's stock markets were red hot and soaking up hundreds of initial public offerings.

Stock markets in Europe and the US fell below their lows set in March, when fears of a systemic financial crisis peaked.

The losses since Monday piled up to more than 16 percent, making it the worst week in the history of Indian stock markets.

If that process truly kicks off, no one will argue about whether China's stock markets are crashing or not.

Knowledge can be tested, climate change identified, stock markets analysed and the very origins of the universe probed.

It has roiled international stock markets for weeks, with share values falling again Thursday on London, Paris and Frankfurt exchanges.

And with stock markets and wealth soaring, the recession already looks like bad memory unlikely to recur anytime soon.

It is still too early to tell whether there will be continued selling in the stock markets.

This article provides an empirical study of how useful earnings announcements are in the emerging Chinese stock markets.

Stock markets across the world have risen sharply as hopes increase about a new plan to deal with the eurozone debt crisis.

Capital inflows into Asian stock markets jumped last month as investors sought to take advantage of the region's high economic growth rate.

The two Chinese stock markets are among the best performers globally this year.

In a report last week, Wells Fargo Securities warned of 'psychological damage' that could lead to a selloff in the stock markets.

China has this year accelerated the numbers of companies allowed to join its domestic stock markets.

BRIC stock markets trade on an average 15 times earnings, only a hair less than the S& P. But there are longer term forces at work too.

The oil price has risen more than stock markets since March, to US$60 per barrel, even though demand is still declining.

We examine the relationship between the stock return and trading volume in Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock markets using quantile regression.

For the last six months, the world's emerging stock markets have been riskier than their developed market peers.

Japan's Nikkei Index closed less than one percent higher Friday. Most Asian stock markets are closed through Monday for holiday.

Europe may be the seat of fears for the global recovery, but emerging stock markets are the ones feeling the most pain.

Japanese and European data has hinted that weaknesses in these countries, and foreign stock markets - especially China - have been stalling.

Curiously, America's stock markets rose after the inflation report, having fallen sharply ahead of it.

The Usd was range bound in irregular trading in Asian Session, as regional stock markets have come under significant pressure.

THE shakiness of Western stock markets in recent days is nothing compared with what has been going on in the Gulf.

Savers need to have more than "the long run" to protect them from the volatility of stock markets.

If the money move trend deepened in the near future , The world's stock markets may be stayed in rapid freeze .

At least 10 firms in Quanzhou city make athletic shoes, and four have listed on overseas stock markets.

Most investors fondly remember stock markets as wealth fountains, in which buying opportunities always followed major declines.

"Stock markets and real estate markets are doing well but that's momentum investing. It is not a great new opportunity, " says Mr Abed.

I'd look for the U. S. market to catch up with other global stock markets during their next outbreak of fear.

With stock markets around the world having risen sharply since March, some analysts fear the crisis could spark a correction.

Then, the combination of an Opec oil embargo, inflation and recession caused corporate profits and stock markets to fall worldwide.

This helped to underpin oil prices Wednesday despite weaker Asian stock markets and a stronger dollar.

Yet domestic stock markets have spiralled downwards and lurched wildly out of synch with global trends.

It is possible that western stock markets will decouple from their economies in the decade ahead, and fare well.

The U. S. dollar fell against the euro, amid the relatively steady world stock markets.

The rush to list shares on the region's stock-markets signals that Asia's entrepreneurs are back in the game.

Stock markets rallied as a form of relief from possible Armageddon.

hence, he said, China's stock markets cannot have a significant impact on other countries.

BRIC stock markets trade on an average 15 times earnings, only a hair less than the S&P.

Around the world, stock markets surged October 13 on the news of more aggressive measures being considered by policymakers.

Effective Market Hypothesis (EMH) suggests that stock markets should always reflect all available information sufficiently and correctly.

We discuss the informational efficiency of the bond and stock markets and examine the sources of interest rate volatility.

It has returned to stock markets with a vengeance.

Now, governments that regulate stock markets are going one necessary and long-awaited step further, in establishing mandatory listing rules.

However, improving US stock markets in late morning New York trading helped the US currency to recover as the session progressed.

The distinguish among the bulls, the bears, and other animals used in stock markets.

That doesn't take away the fact that valuations in many Asian stock markets are no longer looking cheap.

China is an emerging market and the volatility of its stock markets will remain higher than in developed markets.

European stock markets opened sharply higher, buoyed by the weekend rescue of the US mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Due to fears of inflation and the ensuing big crunch may bring economic growth, the Asia-Pacific stock markets decline in a row.

World stock markets veered between relief at the rescue of many countries' banks and alarm at the prospects for the world economy .

THE futures industry, despite its name, was long viewed as a somewhat backward relation of the stock markets.

With the exception of a modest $10bn quota for international institutions mainland stock markets are open only to Chinese investors.

Encouraged by this, Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets this week, the first trading day of the continuation of the strong rising trend.

Amid a more optimistic mood, interest rates on Italian and Spanish government bonds fell sharply and stock markets rallied last week.

This would not matter if stock markets were efficient and shares were perfectly priced.

That index excludes works that failed to sell. Some insiders put the price drop closer to 50 per cent, sharper than stock markets.

That gulf helps explain why stock markets are thriving even as the economy is barely growing and unemployment remains stubbornly high.

In many emerging economies, the lagging performances of the stock markets have not necessarily pointed to slower overall growth.

Partly owing to the collapse of the housing and stock markets, hostility to businesspeople and capitalism has grown sharply again.

Fears of a widespread credit crunch created high volatility in stock markets and credit markets.

Since China's stock markets began operating in the early 1990s, there have been several euphoric periods, each ending in disaster.

You see, stock markets are largely driven the buying and selling decisions of millions of irrational minds.

Stock markets recovered from lows, but most remained down on the day.

More simply, real returns from stock markets are likely to be lower, if they have recently been high, and vice versa.

But the current downturn in global stock markets and string of bank failures could be a blessing in disguise for Nomura.

A key driver of the bull run in US and UK stock markets in recent years before the credit crunch is now being reversed.

Subprime mortgage losses have hit bank shares and stock markets around the globe.

But with the renminbi not freely convertible and China's stock markets isolated from international capital flows, valuations diverge widely.

Acouthan believes stock markets and commodity prices, especially metals and energy, will continue to be under pressure.

Despite the best efforts of analysts, the daily fluctuations of stock markets frequently defy reason or easy explanation.

In the short-term emerging stock markets will take a licking if the developed world slides into another financial crisis.

Those interventions, by shoring up stock markets with cheap money, have made life even more difficult for the bears.

It was hardly irrational that these strong fundamentals were translated into sharply rising stock markets.

However this week, news of the plan sent prices higher on the American and international stock markets.

It may not look like it, but the world's stock markets are about to start moving in different directions.

Asian stock markets have largely shrugged off the region's favorable economic fundamentals this year and have fallen sharply.

The almost free money that banks and stock markets threw at all sorts of foolish ventures has disappeared.

The downgrade caused stock markets to fall amid fears of a potential wider fiscal crisis in the euro area.

China its treasury bursting with foreign reserves and its stock markets surging, is poised for stable growth.

Fears that a euro crisis could somehow spread to the rest of the global economy are likely to keep global stock markets in turmoil.

Stock markets breathed a sigh of relief Monday and Tuesday after China held off lifting interest rates over the weekend.

Investors yesterday took a similarly positive view, with the leading European stock markets rising by more than 2 per cent on the day.

SPRING has arrived, stock markets are cheery and even forecasters are feeling a bit sunnier about the economic outlook.

If you believe stock markets make money in the long run, you need to live for a really long time.

For a century, America has dominated the world economy and world stock markets with no serious challenger.

But it is not just equities that have been influenced by China's stock markets.

Since then, the value of those investments has mostly plunged amid worsening conditions in global credit and stock markets.

In 2009, it was a surge in bank lending, not an improvement in the economy, that made China's stock markets top performers.

A day before the ministry announcement in July, BYD said it may delay the share sale to wait for "better timing" after stock markets fell.

Technology, a pillar of the Korean and Taiwanese stock markets, has been marked down alongside falling consumer electronic goods price tags.

Note too that soggy stock markets from Wall Street to China have ignored the hype so far.

So, why this stark differentiation between the stock markets of the world's two largest emerging countries?

Beijing has halted the launch of new domestic equity funds amid concerns that the country's stock markets risk overheating.

The sudden fall on Wall Street set up a chain reaction in stock markets around the world.

The line is clever, but it unfairly denigrates the predictive power of stock markets.

Third, despite the recent bounce, the decline in world stock markets is far bigger than in the corresponding period of the Great Depression.

Meanwhile, there was also some overheating in the economic sector , mainly in the real estate sector and the stock markets.

Perhaps of all the world's major stock markets, China's can perform terribly with the least collateral damage.

Stock markets there, which looked to open flat before the Korean peninsula news, opened lower and remained down.

Unlike the stock markets, medium term upward shifts in fine wine prices tend to be permanent.

Stock markets, nudging their highs for the year, show investors can deal with this.

Stock markets gained, although rises were muted as investors awaited clues to the timing of eventual shifts in central banks' policies.

Stock markets have fallen sharply in response to far-reaching plans by Barack Obama to curb the activities of the biggest US banks.

Positive sentiment is running through stock markets in a way not seen since last spring.

"And that's in part why stock markets across the globe are nervous. "

Turbulent stock markets are providing a fertile ground for active investors looking to make a quick profit .

His clever manipulation of the stock markets makes him lots of money.

Overall, I believe global stock markets will likely be volatile with downward bias on rising interest rate and stagflation concern.

He notes that stock markets, home sales and consumer confidence are all showing the gradual improvement typical of turning-points.

European stock markets jumped after Japan said that it considering buying bonds of struggling countries in the European Union.

Stock markets shrugged off the worries and rose in Asia, leaving currency markets to roil.

Washington's actions eased investor concerns on Asian stock markets, which made strong gains by the close of Monday's trading.

A deep sense of gloom has again descended over Asian stock markets.

I know enough to pick out even the short term trends and fluctuations of stock markets.

The slump on Wall Street set up a chain reaction in stock markets around the world.

Stock markets around the world are surging as investors bank on economic recovery.

As the credit system seized up and stock markets panicked, global car sales buckled.

Dow compiled the index as a way to gauge the performance of the industrial component of America's stock markets.

The recent sell-off in stock markets is likely to impact upon sentiment in the near term as fund managers brace for redemptions.

Global stock markets rose more than 11%, money remained cheap and economic growth (outside the U. S. ) remained fairly strong.

To date, insurance and stock markets have been set up with the participation of domestic and external enterprises.

But, as the chart shows, global stock markets have steadily become more correlated over the past few decades.

China's stock markets could be affected for months by Monday's deadly earthquake in the southwestern province of Sichuan.

The financial crisis, collapsing stock markets and plunging commodity prices have hit companies in rich and poor countries alike.

Tumbles in U. S. autos (GM, Ford &Chrysler) &Citigroup, and fear of global economic depression resulted in global stock markets plunged.

Instead, US financials fit a pattern of stalled momentum across the many financial markets (outside the stock markets of China and India).

Actually, any announcement of military activities would set off a downward spiral in the international stock markets, said Harper.

The conventional assumption that stock markets behave according to a random Gaussian or normal distribution is incorrect.

And there's also concern that cutting rates and expanding lending would just re inflate bubbles in the property and stock markets.

Complexity researchers who study the behavior of stock markets may have identified a signal that precedes crashes.

Japan's massive earthquake and tsunami knocked already jittery global stock markets on Friday, with Europe following Asia lower.

Compared with other stock markets, the phenomenon of high discount in the counterpart domestically is especially evident.

To explain the "anomalies" in stock markets, behavioural finance has recently progressed vigorously.

It is a difficult strategy to pull off, because in the long run stock markets tend to rise.

Stock markets also proliferated in different countries, in part because shares entitle their holders to repayment in local.

after one of the worst days on global stock markets in modern times.

Stock markets have responded positively to the change of leadership in Greece and the Italian senate approving economic reforms.

The recent turmoil in Southeast Asian financial and stock markets has come as a blow to many hopes in the region.

Global stock markets will likely be volatile with downward bias on US Fed Reserve meeting on interest rate and on stagflation concern.

While Wall Street (and the world's other stock markets) is convinced the worst of the economic shock is over, Main Street is not.

The stock markets are crashing with global food and oil prices rocketing as unchecked speculators turn to commodities instead.

Losses in the stock markets and housing value declines place further downward pressure on consumer spending, a key economic engine.

News of the plan sent prices higher on international stock markets and U. S. stock prices opened higher on Wall Street.

The stock markets, which many experts use to gauge global economies, have fluctuated wildly, plummeting from record highs.

The selloff also triggered falls in copper prices as well as in European and U. S. stock markets.

Bond yields on other troubled euro-zone economies like Portugal and Ireland also moved higher, and stock markets fell across Europe.

Herd behavior is a common phenomenon for the institutional investors, and it has great effect on our stock markets.

Moreover, a potential crash in the red-hot Chinese stock markets might scupper the expansion plans of new ventures.

Data also indicate business spending on equipment and software quickened, despite the sharp sell-off on global stock markets.

Levitt, the Securities and Exchange Commission's longest-serving chairman, supervised stock markets during the late 1990s dot-com boom.

Going by yesterday's data, it might only be nerves since the ISM above 50 signals good things for stock markets.

Most other Asian stock markets were down sharply, a reaction to word that Dubai's main investment arm is having trouble servicing its debt.

As fear stalked financial markets around the world, the region's stock markets and currencies tanked on August 8th.

Looking only at macroeconomic numbers and the stock markets is a bit heartless to these real people in my opinion.

European stock markets fell in early trading Thursday, largely on concerns about the fiscal health of the continent's banks.

Leading Asian stock markets, excluding China, fell yesterday, with Japanese stocks closing near four-month lows.