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Asian markets deep in red; Nikkei down 295pts (Business Standard 12th Dec 2007)Asian markets have posted significant losses this morning following a slide in the US markets after the Federal Reserve as expected cut rates by 25bps.The Hang Seng has slumped 810 points to 28,417. The Nikkei has plunged 295 points to 15,750.
FIIs' net buys Rs 1,038cr in F&O on Tuesday (Business Standard 12th Dec 2007)The Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) were net buyers to the tune of Rs 1,038.16 crore in the futures & options segment on Tuesday.
Wall St tumbles after Fed's modest rate cut (Business Standard 12th Dec 2007)
US stocks tumbled yesterday following Federal Reserve's modest rate cut. The Fed cut ke rate by 25 bps yesterday. The Dow Jones industrial average plunged 294 points to 13,433. The Nasdaq tumbled 67 points to 2652.
US Fed cuts key interest rate by 25bps (Business Standard 12th Dec 2007)The US Federal Reserve has decided to cut its benchmark interest rate by a 25 basis points to 4.25% to prevent the housing slump and credit squeeze from undoing the six-year expansion.
Small-, mid-caps steal the show (Business Standard 12th Dec 2007) The continued selling in frontline stocks by foreign investors over the past one month, which also coincided with curbs on participatory notes (P-notes), delayed the Sensex and the Nifty from closing above the crucial milestone of 20,000 and 6,000 respectively. But the real stars during the last one month — the period during which the Sensex and the Nifty breached the milestone for the first time intra-day — are small- and mid-cap stocks.
Oil falls below $90 on Fed cut (The Economic Times 12th Dec 2007)Oil prices fell below $90 a barrel on Wednesday on concerns a timid interest rate cut would not be enough to bolster a flagging US economy, and as harsh weather that had hit US energy supply infrastructure started to clear up. US light, sweet crude futures fell 57 cents to $89.45 a barrel in Globex electronic trading by 0350 GMT, paring a jump of over $2 in the previous session. London Brent crude fell 56 cents to $89.43 a barrel.
Fed rate cut already factored in (The Hindu Business Line 12 th Dec 2007)
Stock markets across the globe are awaiting yet another interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve in a bid to aid the beleaguered credit markets and to keep the US economy from sliding into a recession.
The Federal Reserve Chairman, Mr Ben Bernanke, and the Vice-Chairman, Mr Donald Kohn, have almost assured the financial markets in speeches made last month, that a rate cut is on the way. The hopes of another rate cut to arrest the ‘turbulence’ in the financial markets made the Dow Jones Industrial Average reverse from a correction on November 26 and the index has gained 8 per cent since then.

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