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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2016
... the ABS, "The number of Australian residents born in India has almost tripled over the last 10 years and residents born in China have more than doubled in this time". Chinese born immigrants accounted for 2.0% while Indians made up 1.8% of the population ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
... declines in both exports and imports. Exports dropped by 10.4% to HK$205.5 billion in the year to February with shipments to China falling by 6.4%. Exports to Japan declined by 17.1% while those to the US and the UK decreased by 23.2% and 26.6%, respectively. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
... PHP46.355 per US dollar. Philippine exports fell by 3.9% in the year to January as shipments to the ASEAN countries (-9.5%), China (-8.6%) and Singapore (-8.6%) declined. However, exports to Japan (+7.7%), the US (+0.7%) and Europe (+3.8%) increased. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2016
... supply and affordability problem. Finding the right property at an affordable price is burdening many potential buyers." China MNI business sentiment The MNI China business sentiment indicator printed at 49.9 in March, unchanged from February, marking ...

Easier for as long as necessary?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... alleviate US dollar-denominated debt repayments from emerging market countries. And oh, it would also give the People's Bank of China (PBOC) pause for thought of further yuan devaluation. But these present a problem for the Reserve Bank of Australia ...

Competitiveness at risk from STEM fall-off

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... girls." Titled "Girls in Tech" and conducted by MasterCard the study surveyed 1,560 girls aged 12 to 19 years in Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. China and India came out as the leaders in girls' uptake of STEM subjects at ...

Research shows ethical investing at tipping point

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016
... as an ethical decision, but it also makes financial sense. Coal and oil prices are declining due to structural factors: China is reducing its coal use, Japan is diversifying its energy mix and developed countries worldwide have falling electricity consumption ...

Australian non-bank finance shows robust growth

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2016
... volume of online alternative finance markets including peer-to-peer lending and crowd-funding grew by 323% in 2015 with China's market leading the pack at $1.36 billion. Japan's market ranked second at $483 million with Australia a close third at $467 ...

Capital Group rethinks global investment

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2016
... and stability to investors, such as Novo Nordisk a Danish pharmaceutical company. Novo Nordisk currently provides 56% of China's insulin with that number set to rise as the number of Chinese citizens with diabetes predicted to hit 143 million by 2035. ...

No tears for China's disappointing data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2016
There was very little financial market reaction to China's latest data dump. This could be because the stats only confirmed what markets already know - i.e., China's economy is slowing - or they've discounted the disappointing numbers as due to seasonal ...