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Land of the rising small caps

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2007
... to find value, I imagine we'll be overweight in time," Naylor said. She said compared to Australian resource stocks, Japanese small cap companies were better risk priced. "If you're looking at headline numbers of what you could be paying for return of ...

Sub-prime Godzilla tramples Japan

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2007
... sub-prime losses. The recent collapse of Citigroup's US-listed shares has also hit the share-swap deal with domestic Japanese brokerage giant Nikko Cordial. The list of causalities goes on with Aozora Bank slashing profit forecasts by 23 per cent and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
... index finished up 19.85 points to 7819.47. PARIS - The CAC-40 index closed 51.59 points lower to 5631.63. TOKYO - The Japanese Nikkei average slumped by two per cent to its lowest level in two months, pushed down by investors nervous about the credit ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2007
... week. PARIS - The CAC-40 index closed down 10.5 points to 5,720.42 points, losing 74.45 points over the week. TOKYO - The Japanese market closed at its lowest level for the the week thanks to a credit crunch-linked fall in banking shares like Mitsubishi ...

A tale of two currencies

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2007
... that exporters are feeling, tourism in Australia will also take a hit, with the large slices of our tourism pie, namely Japanese and American tourists, expected to opt for cheaper destinations. Our Federal Government having found an additional $47 billion ...

Confidence rising in emerging markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2007
... economies are still very optimistic," said Chris Ryan, regional chief executive at ING Investment Management Asia Pacific. Japanese respondents were the most pessimistic, with only 26 per cent of respondents believing their markets would improve. Besides ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2007
... market expectations. Ms Hampton said the retail news encouraged carry traders to sell low-yielding currencies like the Japanese yen in favour of high interest rate money like the Australian dollar. "It's another piece of data that the US economy is holding ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2007
... - The DAX index fell 27.81 points to 7,974.37. PARIS - The CAC-40 index lost 13.84 points to 5,829.4 points. TOKYO - Japanese markets were closed on Monday for a public holiday, Sports Day. On Friday, the Nikkei closed down 27.45 points to 17,065.04. ...

Bear bargains and ambulance chasers

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2007
... will likely be needed. The Fed's larger than expected rate cut injected some cheer back into the global markets, with Japanese stocks in particular responding well. Consensus seems to be that beyond potential short-term volatility, falling US rates will ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
... index finished down 6.51 points to 7,787.92. PARIS - The CAC-40 index closed 8.16 points lower to 5,692.49. TOKYO - The Japanese financial markets were closed for a public holiday, the day following Autumn Equinox. On Friday, the Nikkei average closed ...