Australian hedge funds outperform ASX 200 index by 5%. (The Bloomberg Edge)

Investor Confidence - Interview with LaCrosse Global Fund Services Co-CEO Chris Kundro

It looks like those magicians of finance - hedge fund managers - are getting sucked into the vortex of the financial crisis. Investors are pulling their money out of the funds. Some analysts expect at least a third of the funds will disappear next year.

Wall Street continued its downward trajectory Friday as investor pessimism sent global stocks sharply lower. Key Asian indexes fell two percent, while markets from London to Paris saw declines between three to five percent. The sell-off came despite major US initiatives this week to bolster the...

Sep. 15, 2008. Global markets were reeling Monday after a convulsive day on Wall Street that saw a leading US investment bank file for bankruptcy and other institutes scramble to merge as the credit crunch claimed one of its biggest victims yet. Stock prices plunged in Asia and Europe in the wake...

Sep. 16, 2008. LONDON (Reuters) - Investors dumped equities and oil as the financial meltdown spread on Tuesday, a day after Lehman Brothers collapsed, driving the yen and government bonds higher and unleashing a panic rush to secure short-term cash. A day after Lehman filed for bankruptcy...

Global share prices sank on the news of Lehman's collapse, leaving the international financial markets in chaos. The world's central banks are pouring in funds to help calm the storm. Charlie D'Agata reports.

GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS

Sep. 15, 2008. Global markets were reeling Monday after a convulsive day on Wall Street that saw a leading US investment bank file for bankruptcy and other institutes scramble to merge as the credit crunch claimed one of its biggest victims yet. Stock prices plunged in Asia and Europe in the wake...

Complete video at: fora.tv Newscorp CEO Rupert Murdoch champions the open market and cautions against the "very dangerous move...towards protectionism" among international economies. "Open markets have benefited everybody, rich and poor alike," Murdoch argues. ----- According to research by the...

Jong-Wha Lee, Head of ADBs Office of Regional Economic Integration, discusses the difficult year ahead for developing Asia. Economic growth in developing Asia will slow to 5.8% in 2009, down from a likely 6.9% this year and 9% in 2007, as the impact of the global financial crisis spreads to...

Interview with David Wolf, Chief Economist, Merrill Lynch Canada on the Global Financial Economic Outlook at the Canadian Business Outlook 2009 conference

Interview with Benjamin Tal, Senior Economist, CIBC World Markets on the current state of the economy and what's likely in store for Canada in 2009 - from the Canadian Business Outlook conference 2009.

video.news.sky.com The London Summit has, more than ever before, demonstrated how the geo-political map has changed. China has arrived, Brazil is arriving and Russia is again being taken seriously. So what affect has it had on the deal-breaking? Sky's Foreign Affairs Editor, Tim Marshall reports.

Sep. 19, 2008. US lawmakers were set to hold urgent talks with Treasury and Federal Reserve officials over the weekend to nail down details of a $700 billion economic rescue plan designed to eliminate the "toxic debts" that have pitched Wall Street and global markets into chaos over the past...