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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2008
... points, to 4,402.97. TOKYO - Japan share prices closed down 2.11 per cent, hit by renewed worries about the health of the world's top banks and news of a contraction in the domestic economy. Exporters' shares suffered after the US dollar fell back below ...

Westpac's Kelly signs UN water mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... The mandate is an international project driven by the UNGC to tackle the water crisis, which could see five billion of the world's 7.9 billion people suffering from water scarcity by 2025, according to the United Nations. Westpac claims to be the first ...

China's growth sustainable: Wang

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2008
... and combined it with Chinese tradition to formulated our own rules. They are picking the brains of the best people in the world and learning," he said. China's economic and subsequent infrastructural growth may have caught the attention of the world's ...

The fight over how to fight inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
... compensating people for inflation rather than seeking to conquer it. These advocates include a former chief economist of the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz and now Columbia University professor, who told ABC Radio that "countries that follow inflation targets ...

ASEAN's mute economic muscle

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2008
The near invisible response of ASEAN to the Myanmar disaster highlights how despite all the talk of the world realigning economically, the Asia-Pacific region still point to the West for the heavy global lifting. ASEAN, or the Association of South East ...

India dominates global IPO

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2008
The volatile Indian stock market may have been hit harder than stock markets in the developed world during January but it hasn't frightened companies that believe in its upside, judging on latest global IPO data. The Indian market wide NIFTY index from ...

Indian infrastructure investing fuels sustainability

ALEX DUNNIN IN NEW DELHI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2007
... India. The Minister said they expect 30 per cent of this funding to come from foreign direct investors, 10 per cent from the World Bank and similar sources, leaving nearly two-thirds to come from the Indian public sector whose tax revenues are currently ...

India: a country within a country

ALEX DUNNIN REPORTING FROM MUMBAI AND NEW DELHI AT THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
... This inward investment and improving export performance is why India's foreign reserves are now among the largest in the world standing at US$270 billion, more than triple what they were just three years ago. Economic activity, growing exports and a ...

India calls for better financial services

ALEX DUNNIN IN MUMBAI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
... across the Asian region. Jain said Indians spend only two per cent of their income on recreation which is way below developed world standards while India is adding eight million new cell phone consumers a month, almost the size of the entire Australian ...

Chinese walls and windows

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2007
... domestic brokerages. Shang Fulin, chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission said in a speech at the World Economic Forum, "After the completion of a three-year restructuring of the domestic brokerage industry, we will resume reviewing the ...