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Market to open higher

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... cent, or 26.68 points, to 20,543.19, ending the Nikkei's best winning streak since a 13-day run in 1988 at the height of Japan's stock market bubble. Shanghai gained 1.69 per cent, or 81.79 points, to 4,910.53 adding to the near-five per cent rise Monday. ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... marginally higher, adding 6.72 points, at 20,569.87. The 12 days of gains marked the best rally since 1988 at the height of Japan's stock market bubble. Shanghai, which plunged almost seven per cent over Thursday and Friday, jumped 4.71 per cent, or ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... final day of a Group of Seven finance meeting, dominated by festering concerns over Greece and pressure from the US and Japan to resolve the debt crisis. Investors are increasingly worried that Greece and its creditors could fail to reach an agreement ...

Market set for a fairly flat open

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... unlock the final 7.2 billion euros ($7.8 billion) of bailout loan money following four months of fractious talks. HONG KONG - Japan's Nikkei stock index has climbed for a 10th straight day with the dollar advancing to a 12-year high against the yen. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has invited his counterparts and their central bank chiefs from Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Japan and the United States, for the gathering that kicks off later on Wednesday. Meantime, markets were attentive to reports ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... ended up 0.12 per cent, or 23.71 points, at 20,437.48 helped by a weaker yen, hopes for corporate earnings and the Bank of Japan's ultra-loose monetary policy. WELLINGTON - General insurer Tower has led the New Zealand share market's benchmark index ...

Running on neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... in April but, as per Markit, job creation is up to four-year highs and prices indices hit their highest in three years. Japan's manufacturing PMI edged up from 49.9 in April to a barely positive 50.9 this month and China's contracted for a third month ...

Universities at fossil fuel divestment frontlines

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... and LGT Capital Partners research showed that of the 97 institutions surveyed across 22 countries - including Australia, Japan, Belgium, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the UK - 69% of participants believed their stakeholders had Environmental ...

Don't put all QE in the same basket: AXA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
The quantitative easing (QE) programs undertaken by the United States, Europe and Japan are essentially different from each other and investors should expect different economic impacts for each one of them. AXA Framlington head of Asia Mark Tinker said ...

TAL sees growth in profits and payouts

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
Financial results from TAL's Japanese parent, Dai-Ichi Life, reveal Australia's biggest life insurer has seen a 12% rise in underlying profit to $146.6 million in the year ended 31 March 2015. Premium income rose 21% to $2.2 billion and claims payouts ...