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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... which gained 10.1 per cent as it announced plans to extend its online film- and television-distribution service to Latin America. Among the big losers was News Corp, which plunged 7.3 per cent as it faced anger and investigations over allegations that ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
Brace yourself people! We might be in for another rough one this week. Gauging from the S&P 500's 1.2 per cent fall on Friday last week, hang on to your hat Australia. This was reportedly triggered by massive falls in the share price of UniCredit -- ...

Credit Suisse global appointments

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
... capital market related deals across Asia Pacific, Central and Eastern Europe, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Latin America. Jesudason was previously head of Asia Pacific FIG team.

Fixed interest ETFs to fill "massive hole"

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
The introduction of fixed income products will spark huge development in the Australian ETF market, according to issuers, if as expected, they are authorised later this year. The ASX does not currently allow fixed income products to be listed although ...

Silver bullet downs market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
... Commodities of nearly all persuasions dropped with a thud and so did Wall Street along with other markets in North and Latin America and most of Europe. Do I have permission to gloat for this space's prescience? Do I get a thank you for warning about ...

Asia to grow amid inflation threat: ADB

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... non-traditional markets to maintain growth. Suggested links included emerging economies within Asia, as well as in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East where trade and investment barriers are currently in place and would need to be lowered if the ...

The other emerging market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... or India... or the BRIC economies... or Asia. But there's the other group of emerging markets... and its name is Latin America. Oh yeah, that spells Brazil to most. Yes Brazil - the land of surf, sea, sand and Mardi Gras. It might be surprising to those ...

Capital at risk in emerging markets

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... trustees at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds that the unrest in the Middle East is likely to spread to Latin America and parts of Asia, threatening Western investments. "It's not a revolution of the destitute," he said, pointing to demographics ...

PineBridge enjoys strong inflows in EM debt

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... big brands in the region - household names in the country they're based. These corporates issuing debt in Asia or Latin America have predictable revenues and often have stronger balance sheets than their developed market counterparts. Mittal also predicts ...

Upside in fixed income: Aberdeen

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... Griffiths, global head of fixed income, Aberdeen. The asset manager has looked increasingly at emerging markets such as Latin America, where Venezuela is a house favourite, and leans strongly towards Asia. In credit markets in general though, appetite ...