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The London Stock Exchange
The City of London is an area of about one square mile, sometimes known as the Square Mile, on the north bank of the River Thames.

The boundaries are basically the Tower of London in the east, the Temple Bar in the west and the River Thames in the south and Smithfield in the north.

There are some big tourist attractions in the city. St Paul's Cathedral, The Tower of London, The Old Bailey, The Bank of England, Lloyds Building and Tower 42.

The present St Paul's Cathedral was designed by Christopher Wren as part of the re-building of London after the fire, and the building was eventually completed in 1710.

The Lloyd's Building was designed by Richard Rogers, the same architect that designed the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Opened in 1986, it is one of the most well known modern buildings in London.

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SENSEX FALL BY 678 POINTS MUMBAI STOCK EXCHANGE INDIA NEWS HEADLINES

SENSEX FALLS AT MUMBAI STOCK EXCHANGE INDIA NEWS HEADLINES: - The Indian benchmark Sensex on Wednesday tumbled by 678 points triggered by weakening global trend amid crude oil surging to more than USD 99 a barrel as said by MUMBAI STOCK EXCHANGE officials. The major puller to the market were shares in metal sector, which dropped the most by 1,057.10 points at 16,253.59, followed by capital goods index with a fall 1,046.64 points at 19,302.78. PSU index fell by 606.17 points at 9,625.17, oil and gas index by 405.59 points at 11,730.99, banking index by 536.82 points at 10,227.71 and realty index by 493.72 at 9,953.63.

The MUMBAI STOCK EXCHANGE barometer dropped 678.18 points at 18,602.62 on selling in stocks of firms in metal, capital goods, PSU and refinery sectors. It touched the day's low of 18,515.30 and high of 19,218.88 points. The broader National STOCK EXCHANGE'S Nifty slid by 219.85 points at 5,561.05, after moving between 5,790.05 and 5,530.95 during the day. During the day, crude oil surged to cross the USD 99 a barrel mark in international market resulting in heavy selling by investors here, marketmen said.

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Stock Exchange, London, England...

The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange is all hustle and bustle on a busy day. Founded in 1982, LIFFE contributes to London's status as one of the world's leading financial centers.

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he information on this blog does not constitute investment and financial advice OF ANY FORM.

You the reader are EXPECTED to do your OWN DUE DILIGENCE BEFORE following any trade or investment ideas that might ever be mentioned here.

DXB KOLA are often wrong in their predictions of market direction on any time frame, AND MONEY/TRADE MANAGEMENT will always be a KEY COMPONENT is not usually disclosed here. THEREFORE, IF you are reading this blog for ideas on market direction and are BLINDLY following ANY IDEA FROM THIS BLOG, you are likely going to LOSE MONEY.

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Kuwait Stock Exchange, KSE back to trading…


The Kuwait Stock Exchange is back to trading today by a court decision.Kuwait’s stock exchange was forced to close last week also by the court decision after traders brought a case against the government, demanding that it intervene to halt the bourse’s dramatic decline. Recent reports showed that the performance of the market has plunged down to more than 30 %.


The Kuwait Investment Authority, the country’s sovereign wealth fund, has also ploughed several hundred million dollars into the stock market in a bid to stem its decline.However, the bourse has continued its downward trend prompting protests by disgruntled investors, some of whom have been demanding that the government resign. Let’s wait and see the trend today.

Good day everyone!

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Borsa Italiana: $1.59 trillion share trades
Italian stock market, World's 8 biggest stock exchanges



The Borsa Italiana S.p. A., based in Milan, is Italy's main stock exchange. It was privatised in 1997, and was acquired by the London Stock Exchange in October 2007.

Borsa Italiana has managing responsibility for Italy's derivatives markets and its fixed income market.


Milan's Borsa di Commercio (Commodities Exchange) opened under a vice-royal decree on 16 January 1808 and it operated under public ownership until 1998.

It was sold to a consortium of banks, and operated under a S.p. A. holding company between January 2, 1998 and an all-share takeover by the London Stock Exchange on October 1, 2007.

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The Smartest Investment MSPs Can Make In 2009

I admit it: I still read Money magazine and Smart Moneybecause I like the basic investment advice they offer (or perhaps I enjoy reading about everyone’s shared pain). Even as the stock market continues to decline, I’m not ready to completely quit on Wall Street. Still, I’m starting to realize there’s a far smarter place for a small business owner like me to invest my money.

Sure, bonds and CDs are safe bets. But my smartest ongoing investment since 2007 involves pumping money into my own business. I suspect smart managed service providers have come to the same conclusion.

When Amy Katz and I co-founded Nine Lives Media Inc. (MSPmentor’s parent) we had some clear goals in mind. We decided not to pursue outside investment dollars because we wanted to maintain complete creative and financial control of the company.

We ultimately funded all operations out of our own pockets. We did some consulting work on the side to help generate cash flow until our main business properties gained momentum. And I was fortunate to quickly learn that Amy — as I expected — aggressively manages cash flow for our company.

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Stock Market Update

Mortgage Sector.

The mortgage sector has continued to witness a lot of activitysince the listing of Aso Savings and loans on the floor of theNigerian Stock Exchange. Aso Savings and loans has continuedto reach new heights as investors continue to strive for a stake init. The demand for the stock remained high with the supply fallingshort of the demand. The stock was admitted in the official list ofthe Nigerian stock exchange about 3 weeks ago at N3:50 and hassince been on the upsurge.

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What is the Stock Market?

At the stock market, stocks of listed companies are dealt. The term stock market is used for the overall stocks sold and bought at stock exchanges. A group of organizations can constitute a stock exchange to perform share dealings. For example, USA NASDAQ and NYSE are stock exchanges.

Functionality

In the stock exchange everyone can participate with respective stocks. It doesn’t matter where it is based or how much stock the trader possesses. In the stock market, small investors to big traders everybody trade together. The price of a stock depends on the demand and supply of that particular stock. In stock markets, the share dealing is done by a middleman. The person is known as a share broker. The seller and buyer mutually decide the price of the trade. There is an open place in the stock market for trading and the process is known as open outcry. Here traders gather and wildly shout their individual quote to sell their stock. In this kind of auction (the ‘verbal bid’) the bidding price changes simultaneously and stops only when a bid is singled out as the highest. The other type of trading is virtual and performed on the computer. In this type of exchange, traders sitting on computer terminals bid through computers within a network.

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Nortel files for bankruptcy protection, plans to streamline but stay in business
CANADA STOCK MARKETS: Nortel files for bankruptcy protection, plans to streamline but stay in business



TORONTO - Telecommunications equipment manufacturer Nortel Networks Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection from creditors Wednesday, vowing to stay alive as a smaller company as it sells non-core businesses and restructures to deal with a plunge in business caused by the North American recession.

The move by the former kingpin of Canada's technology sector (TSX:NT) means Nortel will shed more jobs from its 30,000 employee global workforce and likely pin its future hopes on wireless technology, the fastest growing part of the telecom sector.

The bankruptcy filing will affect the company's debts and other operations, including sponsorships, but Nortel says it remains committed to sponsoring the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. The company is also a major sponsor of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Long-suffering Nortel has been trying to restructure for more than three years and becomes the first major North American technology company to be forced into bankruptcy protection by the the global downturn and credit market crunch.

"Nortel must be put on a sound financial footing once and for all," president and CEO Mike Zafirovski said in a news release announcing the bankruptcy filings.

Nortel stock, which had been halted, lost two thirds of its value, dropping 25.5 cents to 13 cents on the Toronto Stock Exchange, in massive trading of more than 58 million shares..

North America's biggest maker of telecom gear has faced a variety of troubles since the telecom bubble burst eight years ago - including accounting problems that devastated its stock and led to criminal charges against former executives. Most recently, the slumping economy squeezed orders from its phone company customers and ate into its revenues, helping to produce mounting losses.

The company directly and through joint ventures employs about 30,000 people around the world, including 5,800 at Canadian operations in Ottawa and Toronto.

It plans to continue business as usual while it restructures, but job cuts are likely as it tries to lower costs and deal with a huge debt to remain competitive. Moreover, Nortel will come under pressure to assure customers it can stay alive and be able to supply their future technology and equipment needs.

"These actions are imperative so that Nortel can build on its core strengths and become the highly focused and financially sound leader in the communications industry that its people, technology and customer relationships show it ought to be," Zafirovski said.

In Ottawa, federal Industry Minister Tony Clement said Ottawa is willing to provide some financing through the Export Development Canada Crown corporation to help Nortel restructure and emerge from bankruptcy protection as a viable company.

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CANADA STOCK MARKETS: TSX Continues to Tumble

Following a major sell-off in the Shanghai stock market yesterday, other markets around the world fell dramatically, including the Toronto Stock Exchange. It looks like today is more of the same, as the index is already down 61.85 points, or 0.49%. However, given today's partial recovery of the Dow after its 400+ point fall yesterday, it is possible the S&P/TSX could bounce back by closing time.

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Toronto Stock Exchange

The Toronto Stock Exchange was hitting lows not seen in two months Wednesday after commodity prices fell and Prime Minister Stephen Harper said it's too soon to consider additional economic stimulus measures.

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Australia Stock Markets.Green Rock Energy Ltd.

Green Rock Energy Ltd., an Australian company that trades on the Australian Stock Exchange.

As regular EnergyTechStocks.com readers know, in a world craving environmentally friendly power sources that can provide electricity on a continuous basis, geothermal and ocean wave power outshine solar and wind power, because the latter provide electricity on an intermittent, not a constant, basis. While investors’ focus has been almost entirely on solar and wind, EnergyTechStocks.com suspects that geothermal and wave power are about to experience a surge in interest.

Green Rock explores for and develops geothermal power projects in Australia and Hungary. The company recently entered into an agreement with Hungary’s largest oil refiner, Mol Nyrt. and Iceland’s Enex hf to create a company that reportedly will explore, produce and sell geothermal energy, first in Hungary, then in other countries. Interestingly, Green Rock’s technology is to be used for testing the geothermal potential of old oil wells, a concept that could capture a lot of attention from environmentalists.

Hungary has been described as a “hotbed” of geothermal energy, and while that doesn’t guarantee success for Green Rock, given that South Australia also is a geothermal target area for companies, Green Rock may be positioned to do well.

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Australia, N.Z. Dollars Rise as U.S. Stock Markets Gain


June 17 (Bloomberg) -- The Australian and New Zealand dollars advanced as U.S. stocks rose, prompting speculation investors will buy higher-yielding assets.

Australia’s dollar also advanced as an index of economic indicators increased in April for a second month. New Zealand’s dollar earlier weakened as the Reserve Bank’s Governor Alan Bollard said the currency’s recent gains were slowing the nation’s economic recovery.

“It’s a stock-driven market,” said Sue Trinh, a senior currency strategist at RBC Capital Markets in Sydney.

Australia’s dollar advanced 0.1 percent to 79.41 U.S. cents at 2:45 p.m. in New York, from 79.34 cents yesterday. New Zealand’s currency appreciated 0.7 percent to 63.46 U.S. cents from 63.01 cents.

A gauge of future economic growth in Australia increased 0.7 percent in April, Westpac Banking Corp. and the Melbourne Institute said in Sydney today.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index of U.S. shares advanced 0.3 percent today after dropping 1.3 percent yesterday.

Benchmark interest rates are 3 percent in Australia and 2.5 percent in New Zealand, compared with 0.1 percent in Japan and as low as zero in the U.S., attracting investors to the South Pacific nations’ higher-yielding assets.

The New Zealand dollar fell earlier today after Bollard said investors buying the currency expecting a strong recovery may be disappointed.

“We expect the economy to begin growing again toward the end of the year, but the recovery is likely to be slow and drawn-out,” he said in a speech in Wellington. “It could also be erratic.”

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