IBT Staff Reporter

Good morning dear traders,welcome in a new trading week. How was your weekend? Did you celebrate your profits of last week, or ...? I was satisfied with my last week´s trading results. Friday´s trading day was great.

Worries about the impact of fraud charges against Goldman Sachs rattled stock markets on Monday, sending investors in search of less speculative currencies and boosted government bonds.

China might see increased foreign exchange inflows this year as expectations of yuan appreciation mount, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange said on Monday.

Dutch Philips Electronics warned markets were still uncertain despite reporting first-quarter operating profit above the most optimistic expectations fueled by its Lighting unit and cost cuts.

Asian stocks suffered their biggest loss in 10 weeks on Monday after U.S. regulators filed fraud charges against Goldman Sachs and China clamped down harder on property speculation, giving investors an excuse to take profits after markets had rallied to multi-month highs.

The conditions are not ripe for China to unshackle the yuan from its 21-month-old peg to the dollar, a senior government economist said in comments published on Monday.

United Airlines is continuing separate merger talks with US Airways and Continental Airlines, and has also discussed the option of deepening a three-way marketing alliance between the carriers absent a merger, people familiar with the matter said.

Toyota Motor Corp has agreed to pay a record $16.4 million fine to U.S. safety regulators in response to the government's claim that it knowingly delayed a massive accelerator pedal recall in January, a government official said.

Clients of Goldman Sachs are standing behind the bank after the top U.S. securities regulator slapped fraud charges against the Wall Street powerhouse over its marketing of a subprime mortgage product.

Asian stocks and commodities fell on Monday as fraud charges against Goldman Sachs, disappointing company earnings and a surprise drop in U.S. consumer sentiment gave investors an excuse to take profits from a recent rally to multi-month highs.

U.S. miner Peabody Energy faces an uphill battle to win support for its $3.8 billion bid for Macarthur Coal from the Australian miner's board and biggest shareholder.

Electrical goods retailer Best Buy plans to open up to 1,000 new mobile phone shops, the Financial Times reported in its Monday edition.

Global finance leaders face fractious talks this week on how to shift more voting power at the World Bank to emerging economic heavyweights such as China, a prelude to a bigger fight over the IMF.

Stirling primary and secondary school students can now benefit from online tutoring thanks to a partnership between Edith Cowan University (ECU), Tutoring Australasia and the City of Stirling.

Europe begins a new working week on Monday with officials hoping to significantly increase flights to half the normal number and the EU discussing how to tackle the 5-day-old air travel crisis caused by volcanic ash.

Edith Cowan University(ECU) researchers are working with health organisations across the nation to address the staggering statistic that men who live in very remote areas are likely to live 17 years less than their city-dwelling counterparts.

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U.S. miner Peabody Energy faces an uphill battle to win support for its $3.8 billion bid for Macarthur Coal from the Australian miner's board and biggest shareholder.

More than half of private equity investors plan to put more money in emerging markets, expecting higher returns from deals in these economies than ones in sluggish western markets, a survey found.

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The International Monetary Fund will raise its forecast for global growth this year to 4 percent or more as China and emerging economies pick up pace, the Nikkei newspaper quoted the head of the fund as saying.

A joint mission of European officials and the International Monetary Fund to Greece has been delayed by the volcanic ash cloud and will arrive on Wednesday if possible, Greece's Finance Ministry said on Sunday.

European officials said they hoped half of flights would operate across the continent on Monday as they sought to ease four days of airline paralysis caused by a sprawling ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano.

A renewed bout of risk aversion sent the Australian Dollar lower late on Friday night and opens the new week trading at 0.9210, having gapped lower from Friday night's closing level of 0.9250.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc saw pressure building on both sides of the Atlantic on Sunday, just two days after it was charged by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Crisis-forged unity among the Group of 20 rich and emerging economies may be fraying before the problems they set out to address are solved.

The International Monetary Fund and World Bank said on Sunday they expect to go ahead with meetings of global finance chiefs in Washington this week despite air travel disruptions caused by Iceland's volcanic ash.

A mission of European officials and the International Monetary Fund to Greece has been delayed by the volcanic ash cloud and will arrive on April 21 if possible, Greece's Finance Ministry said on Sunday.