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Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
The share market has opened lower after falls on US and European markets overnight. Invast Securities chief market analyst Peter Esho said a sell-off on European markets, particularly in Germany, may have dampened investor sentiment. Manufacturing data ...

Instos lose chasing high hedge fund returns

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
... The fund follows a catalyst- or event-driven strategy and invests 75% of its portfolio in the US and 25% in developed European countries, including the UK. It is free to invest right across the capital structure including equity, debt, credit default ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... bank - and threatened more but... "We do not need to trigger an actual war with Russia, nobody would want that." The European Union is still deciding what it's gonna decide but Germany is reportedly adamant that this shouldn't include economic sanctions... ...

APRA gets Basel III tick

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... Australia's is the eighth regulatory framework to be graded by the Basel Committee. Others include the United States, the European Union, Japan and Brazil. The Basel Committee said: "Australia's implementation of the Basel capital framework was found ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... in Crimea voted to leave Ukraine and join Russia, in a vote that was widely condemned in the West, with the US and the European Union vowing to impose sanctions and bolstering fears of a new Cold War. In local economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... Russia and Ukraine. The market has started the day more than one per cent lower, which follows heavy falls on US and European markets overnight. Official Chinese figures released late on Thursday showed a sharp decline in industrial output in February ...

T. Rowe Price hires former AllianceBernstein trader

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... Australian equities Randal Jenneke. Nelson was previously head of EMEA trading at AllianceBernstein, where he traded European equities, and head of Australia and New Zealand dealing, trading in Australian equities. Jenneke said of the appointment: "Richard ...

This means war (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... yen" (Reuters) "Equities plunge on rising risks in Ukraine" (AFR) "Stocks slump as tension over Ukraine escalates" (AP) "European stocks slump as West warns Russia over Ukraine" (yahoo.com) Investors are bunkering down ahead of the weekend when Crimea ...

Bottoms up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... 53.8% over the same period. But despite intermittent scares over the past five years - most notable of which are the European sovereign debt crisis, the prospect of currency wars, the Jasmine Revolution and the tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Japan ...

Maybe slowing, definitely distorted, more likely rebalancing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
... question mark, China's headed for a certain slowdown, perhaps even a hard landing. That's what caused the fall in US and European equity markets overnight, the "tumble" in emerging market equities, the sharpest one-day drop in iron ore prices in over ...