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Negative Chinese news clouding opportunity: Wells Capital

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... emerging markets equity portfolio manager Alison Shimada is relaxed about negative media coverage and investor sentiment in China. Shimada says financial deregulation and the nation's growing importance on the world stage mean that China's rising weight ...

A$ at 80c

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... the US$43.39 hit around the middle of last month. Whether these price rises persist remain uncertain but recent news that China's preparing something akin to a QE, if true, should underpin further price appreciations. According to the 'Wall Street Journal' ...

Australians wary of new investments: Legg Mason

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... minds about where they may place their money in 2015. However Australians weren't interested in their own country, placing China at the top, followed by the US, Singapore and India. More than 75% of Australians described themselves as conservative compared ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... Friday. HONG KONG - Shanghai led several Asian stock markets higher as traders bet on fresh economy-boosting measures in China, while another record-breaking close on Wall Street also supported regional markets. Shanghai soared 3.04 per cent, or 133.71 ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... lacklustre lead from overseas. CMC Markets chief market strategist Michael McCarthy said indications the People's Bank of China was committed to keep the world's second largest economy growing by seven per cent a year had helped improve sentiment in ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... or 106.15 points, to 27,827.70. HSBC said its preliminary purchasing managers' index (PMI) of manufacturing activity in China had slipped to a 12-month low in April, the latest data to show the world's No.2 economy slowing. The reading of 49.2 is down ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... market has fallen after the release of weak manufacturing data from the world's second largest economy. Factory activity in China contracted at its fastest rate in a year in April, according to a regular survey by HSBC. The release of the data just before ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
The Australian sharemarket is posting gains on the back of positive offshore leads, China's new stimulus package and rises in some commodities prices. However it gave up some of the morning's gains, going from 0.9 per cent to 0.6 per cent higher after ...

The bad and the bad and the bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... 1.7% in February from 1.6% in January and December equals more Fed impatience equals sooner-than-later lift-off equals bad. China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) tightening rules on margin lending while at the same time relaxing rules on short ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... York on Thursday. HONG KONG - Equities in Shanghai extended their rally on hopes for new economy-boosting measures from China, but Hong Kong and most other Asian markets retreated following more weak US data and losses on Wall Street. Shanghai rose 2.20 ...