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Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... $37.46, and Westpac fell nine cents to $37.58. He said this morning's news of a $6.5 billion takeover bid for Toll Holdings by Japan Post is giving confidence to the market as a whole. Mr Spooner said resource stocks opened fairly flat. "We had a little ...

Australian dividend growth leads Asia Pacific

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
... its 2013 contribution (+17% headline, +15.6% underlying). This increase was more than the entire annual contribution from Japan. There was a wide divergence in performance at industry level. Technology and consumer stocks were strong, while utilities ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
The Australian market looks set to open a little higher despite European markets closing slightly off after disappointing bailout package talks between the European Union and Greece. At 0807 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract ...

Stimulate or deflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... prices have fallen for the 35th straight month in January. Need we say more about that "land of falling prices" that is Japan. The hope is that all these stimuli would stimulate demand and stoke inflation some day soon... before it reaches America via ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher amid a ceasefire in Ukraine and hopes for a deal over Greece's bailout. At 0857 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was up 30 points at 5,747. A new roadmap aimed at ending a 10-month ...

LaSalle acquires Tokyo office complex

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015
... Therefore, we are extremely pleased to acquire Meguro Gajoen in the current environment," LaSalle head of acquisitions, Japan Nick Okumura said. LaSalle co-head and CIO for Asia Pacific Mark N. Gabbay added, "LaSalle maintains a balanced investment strategy ...

When Japan is blah, the Eurozone is ugh and China is wow

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... "It's dead in the water," he said, predicting that growth will continue to languish in the Eurozone at around one per cent. Japan will not have a good year either and will grow at around the same rate. That said, the theme this year is "divergence" ...

When Harry met Sally syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... it make a sound?" category. Not so for the Bank of Canada when it delivered a 25bps reduction to 0.75%. Nor the Bank of Japan when it announced a one-year extension (to March 2016) of its bank lending facility and pro-growth funding facility. Surely ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on Wall Street after disappointing US economic growth report and worrisome data on eurozone inflation. At 0807 AEDT on Monday, the March share price index futures contract was down 24 points ...

Retail investor confidence in domestic market low

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... diversification in investment portfolios," GSAM managing director and head of third party distribution for Asia Pacific (ex-Japan), Jessica Jones, said. "Of particular concern was the fact that those aged over 65, who should be focused on reducing investments ...