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Asia Funds Passport on shaky ground

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... never get off the ground because the majority of fund managers in the region are already aligning their products with European UCITS standards, according to EY Asia-Pacific and EMEIA asset management leader Roy Stockell. Stockell, who has worked for ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... after Wall Street finished mixed as a better-than-expected US jobs report helped offset anxiety over Ukraine that sent European equities lower. At 0645 AEDT on Monday, the March share price index futures contract was down 16 points at 5,456. The monthly ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... jobless claims for the week ending March 1 fell more than expected, by 26,000 to a three-month low of 323,000. LONDON - European stock markets closed mainly higher, with investors looking beyond the Ukraine crisis to better-than-expected US jobs data ...

Crimea makes it domestic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... by the green lights flashing on the screens of most major equity markets overnight. Not even next door neighbour - the European Central Bank (ECB) - is perturbed. It voted to keep interest rates unchanged overnight. According to ECB President Mario Draghi ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... president Vladimir Putin announced he had no plans to invade Ukraine. BBY client adviser Henry Jennings said Wall Street and European markets had rallied strongly after Mr Putin played down the option of sending Russian troops into the former Soviet ...

Punishing Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States and the President of the European Council and President of the European Commission, join together today to condemn the Russian Federation's clear violation ...

Reheating the cold war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... the United States engineered the fall of the Soviet Union and then, lacking its superpower opponent, encouraged East European revolutions and then the removal of Russian allies and clients like Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, Iraqi dictator Saddam ...

Catching the big wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... wants the yuan to become a global currency and/or the next numero uno international reserve currency. That's exactly what European Central Bank Executive Board Member Yves Mersch thought - he's certainly no small beer - when he told the Renminbi Forum ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
The Australian market looks set to open strongly higher after gains on Wall Street and European bourses fuelled by signs of solid business activity and stable eurozone inflation. At 0830 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... Australian market looks set to open flat after Wall Street finished modestly lower following weak housing figures but European markets rose as traders digested mixed retail sales data out of Britain. At 0754 AEDT on Monday, the March share price index ...