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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Global oil demand is likely to contract 0.6% in 2008 for the first time in 15 years, said J.P. Morgan Chase late Friday. Analysts led by Joseph Lupton forecast global oil demand will fall another 0.2% in 2009 as demand dampens in emerging markets, whose appetite offset declines in developed markets' oil consumption in 2006 and 2007. Higher prices and weaker global economic growth are likely to temper demand growth in the emerging countries while developed countries' consumption continues to fall. 'As impressive as [emerging markets] demand has been, the tide of global oil demand is set to turn,' said the J.P. Morgan analysts in a note. market pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- MBIA Inc. late Friday estimated that it may need about $2.9 billion to meet potential termination payments under guaranteed investment contracts following Moody's downgrade of MBIA Insurance Corp. to A2 from Aaa late Thursday. MBIA also expects it will be required to post about $4.5 billion in eligible collateral to satisfy potential collateral posting requirements under contracts. MBIA has total assets of $25 billion related to its asset/liability management business of which $15.2 billion is available to satisfy these requirements. In addition, MBIA has another $1.4 billion in cash, including funds from its recent equity offering, the company said. market pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Expeditors International of Washington said late Friday that its U.K. subsidiary, Expeditors International Ltd., received a request for information from the European Commission for information and records related to an investigation of freight forwarders. Expeditors intends to cooperate with the commission in its efforts to investigate these matters.Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

The new raft of disclosure rules that require hedge funds and other short sellers to reveal the 'significant' short positions they take in the shares of companies carrying out rights issues come into force on Monday.

In forex trading the bottom line is profits and profits are counted in PIPs. When you enter a trade in the Forex or FX market you are trading on what is called a currency pair (or pairs for short). These pairs are nothing more than the relationship between two separate currencies. For instance if you are looking at the Euro (EUR/USD) you are watching the exchange rate between the Euro and the US dollar.

There are many forex trading strategies but most come up very short when it comes to really testing the results. In fact, you would be hard pressed to find one that can make you 5 to ten pips a day consistently.

NEW DELHI: Reserve Bank of India may soon raise the interest rate for short-term lending to banks once again as a measure to control the unabated rise in inflation that shot to 13-year high at 11.0...

LONDON (Reuters) - The financial watchdog imposed new rules on Friday to smooth the process for firms raising cash from rights issues, prompting hedge fund criticism that the move had been rushed in.

The Greater China Fund, Inc. Declares short-Term Capital Gain and Long-Term Capital Gain Distributions

Income payment protection insurance is perhaps one of the most confusing of all the payment protection policies available. This is a policy that can be taken out to safeguard against the fact that you might become unemployed or incapacitated while paying back loans. It is a short term policy that would usually payout for either 12 or 24 months depending on the provider.