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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... 0.67 per cent. The euro retreated to $US1.2613 from $US1.2631 late on Tuesday. HONG KONG - Asian markets were mixed, with Japan's Nikkei giving up earlier gains despite a surprise pick-up in business confidence and the US dollar's breaching of the 110 ...

October h(a)unting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... how we peed our pants with SARS, bird flu and swine flu not so long ago?). There's the world economy - China's slowing, Japan's re-slowing and deflation continues to threaten the Eurozone. There's overvaluation, there's deteriorating market technicals. ...

Market Wrap AM

MARKET WRAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on Wall Street after disappointing economic data, including a big drop in US consumer confidence. At 0810 AEST on Wednesday, the December share price index futures contract was down 33 points ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
... offset by the effects of a sell-off in New York and Europe in response to fresh data indicating weakness in the eurozone. Japan's Nikkei returned from a public holiday on Wednesday to a stronger yen which put downward pressure on exporters. Tokyo slipped ...

Someone mentioned the "S-word" on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014

How to understand emerging markets

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... is in the north-east; Australia, Canada and New Zealand are in the north-west; the US and UK are in the south-west; and Japan, the Eurozone, Switzerland and Scandinavia are in the south-east." The financial health of the western bloc countries is closely ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... offset by the effects of a sell-off in New York and Europe in response to fresh data indicating weakness in the eurozone. Japan's Nikkei returned from a public holiday on Wednesday to a stronger yen which put downward pressure on exporters. Tokyo slipped ...

Thrills, spills and chills

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... loss in trading volumes and prestige." What's that saying again? Win some, lose... a lot. But fear not, mo' money's coming. Japan might be on the brink... the brink of adding more juice into the system. In its monthly economic report for September, the ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... European Central Bank (ECB) QE. These issues du jour have relegated the goings-on in the world's third biggest economy, Japan -- the Land of the Rising Sun (used to be? or would become again?) - to page 3 of the financial press pages. Oh yes, there were ...

AllianceBernstein set to launch three renminbi funds

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... permeated the consciousness of most Australian investors, in our view." Stuart Rae, chief investment officer of Asia Pacific ex Japan value equities, added: "The country's reforms are creating significant new investment opportunities in equities. One ...