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By Kevin Plumberg
The Australian bond market has closed stronger as weak economic data and a slumping equity market boosted safe-haven flows.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asian stocks and emerging market currencies fell on Thursday, with a recent rebound in investor willingness to take risks jeopardized by dire U.S. private employment data and fears about corporate earnings.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asian stocks and emerging market currencies fell on Thursday, after dire U.S. private employment data and fears about corporate earnings cooled investor willingness to take risks for higher returns.
Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Representative Barney Frank , chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said the second half of the government’s $700 billion financial rescue should include aid for municipal bond issuers hurt by the credit crisis.
* Technology shares sink after Intel warning reverberates
By Kevin Plumberg
HONG KONG -- Asian stocks and emerging market currencies fell on Thursday, with a recent rebound in investor willingness to take risks jeopardised by dire US private employment data and fears about corporate earnings.
Brazil's government raised a total of 1.025 billion U.S. dollars through a bond issue with a maturity date of January 2019, the National Treasury said on Wednesday. Most of the bonds were traded in Europe and the United States while the rest was sold in the Asian market, the Finance Ministry said on Tuesday. The bonds carry an annual interest rate of 6.12 percent. It was Brazil's first batch of ...
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