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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... to finish at 17,459.85. The Nikkei was helped by a weakening yen and the lower oil prices, which will cut import costs. Japan has ramped up imports of the black gold to make up for lost energy caused by the shuttering of the country's nuclear power stations. ...

Cash rate more likely to fall than rise: PIMCO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... fallen versus the US dollar," he said, "it hasn't fallen versus all of our other trading partners, especially Europe and Japan. So if you look at the Aussie dollar on a trade-weighted index basis, then it's barely depreciated." He said he expects the ...

Inflows from overseas double in four years

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... explores the flow of funds into Australian managed investment trusts by region, asset class and investor type. It shows that Japan is by far the biggest contributor accounting for 33% ($9.9 billion) of foreign fund flows. The figure shows the significance ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... $US1.2540 late on Thursday. HONG KONG - Asian markets mostly rose on bargain-buying at the end of a disappointing week that saw Japan plunge into recession and a trumpeted Hong Kong Shanghai exchange link-up fall flat. The yen made some inroads against ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... three months in a row"); the Eurozone has stalled; China's getting no traction; and consumer price deflation still plagues Japan. There wasn't any update for the UK yet but I'm guessing it'll more or less mirror that of the US. What happens now? What ...

Minute slip on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... More bones - "Participants pointed to a somewhat weaker economic outlook and increased downside risks in Europe, China, and Japan, as well as to the strengthening of the dollar." "It was observed that if foreign economic or financial conditions deteriorated ...

Platinum reshuffles management after deputy CIO departure

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... Asset Management make a number of key management changes from 2015. Jacob Mitchell, the portfolio manager of the Platinum Japan Fund and deputy chief investment officer is set to leave the fund manager on 31 December 2014, the company announced on the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... Wall Street provided some support with another record close. Tokyo - which lost almost three per cent on Monday on news Japan's economy was in recession - jumped 2.18 per cent, or 370.26 points, to 17,344.06 on Tuesday. Seoul added 1.20 per cent, or ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... Wall Street provided some support with another record close. Tokyo - which lost almost three per cent on Monday on news Japan's economy was in recession - jumped 2.18 per cent, or 370.26 points, to 17,344.06 on Tuesday. Seoul added 1.20 per cent, or ...

Japan did it again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
... many Prime Ministers does it take to fix the Japanese economy? Sixteen... and is still counting. That's the number of times Japan has changed its leader since 1990 when the economy did a Humpty Dumpty. Twenty four years on and all 16 kings - and their ...