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CBA innovation hubs go global

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
... and markets, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, said Hong Kong's developed financial sector, entrepreneurial culture and proximity to China made it an optimal location for the innovation lab. "[It] will allow us to partner with the brightest minds across the city's ...

Time running out to book places for Chief Economists Forum

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
... Group chief economist Julia Toth and RBC Capital Markets head of economics and fixed income strategy Su Lin Ong. "Whether China has a hard landing and whether it can manage to keep its currency stable is likely to be a talking point as well as how much ...

Drown baby, drown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... US$10 a barrel! OMG! That's fantabolous - at least, for oil consumers the biggest three of which are the United States, China, Japan. And at least in so far as what this old, ageing bloke learned in Economics 101. Higher oil prices are a tax on consumption ...

Another Aussie jobs surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
Despite growing worries over China, commodity prices, Fed policy and the slow transition from resources to the non-mining sector of the economy, the Australian labour market remains resilient. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported that ...

China's green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
... The All Ordinaries index closed 1.2% in the green - the first rise after seven straight days of declines this year - after China released trade figures suggesting that the slowdown in its economy is not as slowing as fast. (Remember green shoots and ...

Hedge funds suffer worst year since 2011

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
... followed with an average return of 5.06% while North American managers trailed behind with a flat performance of 0.03%. Greater China investing hedge funds posted their fourth consecutive month of gains in December to finish 2015 with an average return ...

China's low-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2016
It's bad news and it's good news. This is the message delivered by the latest update on China's inflation. China Inflation November Dee Consensus Dee Actual CPI - Y/Y Change 1.50% 1.60% 1.60% PPI - Y/Y Change -5.90% -5.80% -5.90% China's CPI inflation ...

China's January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
... these are just a continuation of the same issues that concerned investors in 2015 (more or less). But it's the return of China's summer of discontent - precipitous drop in its stock market and devaluation of the yuan - during this Northern Hemisphere ...

Custodian appoints new APAC head

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 JAN 2016
... strategic oversight on selected key client relationships in the region and act as executive sponsor for key projects in Greater China. Based in Hong Kong, BenoA(R)t will be responsible for continuing to grow the securities services business in Asia Pacific ...

IFM Investors sell Pacific Hydro to SPIC

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... greenhouse gas pollution every year. SPIC is a comprehensive energy group and the result of the merger between the former China Power Investment Corporation and State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation. It has total assets of US$113 billion and its ...