Grain Giants Sow Seeds Of $2.3 Billion Merger

RIVAL grain operators AWB and ABB Grain are believed to have opened merger talks with an eye to creating a $2.3 billion giant dominating the nation's agriculture export markets.

Obama Picks Team To Revive Economy

US PRESIDENT-ELECT Barack Obama was to unveil his economic team overnight, opting for a seasoned hand with deep knowledge of financial markets, Timothy Geithner, to head the Treasury Department.

G20 The Key To Global Crisis: Bush

THE White House hopes this weekend's meeting of G20 leaders will yield a plan to further stabilise the world economy, as well as settling principles for work on more stable regulation of world financial markets.

Markets Panic On Recession Fears

GLOBAL sharemarkets are gripped with fresh panic amid official predictions the world's advanced economies are sliding towards their first year-long recession since World War II.

Twilight Zone

Markets by moonlight at the rocks has some hot acts. Erik Jensen reports.

Markets Reverse On Us Result

THE election win of US president-elect Barack Obama has boosted the US dollar. But economists are sceptical about whether the Democrats' victory will influence the markets.

Stocks Jump As Lending Rates Settle Down

AN EASING in credit markets and expectations of further interest rate cuts in key economies have boosted investor sentiment.

In Short Nonfiction

THE NEW PARADIGM FOR FINANCIAL MARKETS