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ASX and Bank of China sign major agreement

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
ASX and the Bank of China have signed a heads of agreement to develop the Renminbi (RMB) as a currency in Australia's financial markets. The heads of agreement complements the recent appointment of the Bank of China as the official RMB clearing bank ...

Infra manager Hastings inks major China deal

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
Infrastructure manager Hastings has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with Hong Kong-headquartered China Merchants Investment Development Company Limited (CMID) on the back of yesterday's China-Australia Free Trade Agreement. In April this ...

Industry seizes China FTA opportunities

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
... services industry has been quick off the mark following the signing of a free trade agreement (FTA) between Australia and China yesterday, with many Australian institutions already announcing their own deals with Chinese businesses and institutions. ...

La Trobe Financial appoints head of institutional mandates

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
... running the largest retail mortgage funds operation in Australia. Overseas, La Trobe has been busy boosting its operations in China, having launched an office in Shanghai back in 2008. This quarter, the group has developed a new mortgage product suite ...

G20, FTA and Vlad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
... he? - 'twas, for all intents, and purposes as sleepy as Brisbane is. Oh yeah, Australia scored a free trade agreement with China (got to give the host country something). The details are still sketchy but according to "Business Spectator', "FTA to see ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
... HONG KONG - Asian markets were mixed on Thursday after a record-breaking rally on Wall Street finally came to an end, while China released another batch of disappointing data indicating a slowdown in the economic giant. Japanese shares extended their ...

Sydney set to become China share trading hub

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
... minimum three months. Foreign investors are also only allowed to own shares in the largest institutions. Market rules in China require trades to be settled on the same day they are executed (known as T+0), which would put significant time pressure on ...

Conditions and confidence collide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
... The October survey was taken in the month when global uncertainties seemed to have all come at once - Fed's final taper, China slowdown, eurozone triple dip, geo-politics, geo-health, falling iron ore and gold prices, increased financial market volatility. ...

Shanghai-HK Connect connects China to the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... The Shanghai composite index surged by 2.3% and the Hang Seng index gained more than 0.8% despite renewed anxiety over a China slowdown ignited by price data showing that consumer price inflation remained at a five-year low 1.6% and the PPI declined ...

SSgA warns of equity market complacency

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... banks are housing performance and economic factors such as unemployment. The resources are really dominated by the growth of China. Those are very narrow themes that dominate our market. There are just two main bets," she explained. Engel, who has overseen ...