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Hyperion expands investment team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
... director. Pohl said the firm's portfolio is well positioned to deal with the expected slow down domestic and global economies and rise in inflation over the next 12 months. "Naturally this will affect the companies in our portfolios, however, from both ...

Central bank watch

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
... all meeting to deliberate on appropriate interest rate settings given the growth-inflation balance in their respective economies. Australia: The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will hold its monthly board meeting on Tuesday to assess the country's monetary ...

US growth disappoints

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
... lower from A$965 million A$253 million. This is a very good result especially considering that most of the major world economies are already in slowdown mode. Nevertheless, Australian equities will remain hostage to the daily gyrations in the US and ...

Commodities bull run won't wane: GMI

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
... and India, the sector's bull run looks set to continue for years to come, he said. "China, India, and many emerging economies' growth remains pretty much intact despite the downturn. As a result, global commodity demand will remain sound. "There will ...

Market Jitters Redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... 4.26 per cent in June from a low of 3.31 percent in March. This US experience is repeated elsewhere in the major world economies, including Australia. The trigger this time came in the form of a report warning that a proposed change in US accounting ...

This Week's Market Movers (14-18 July 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
... and increasing inflationary pressures. While official inflation figures are undoubtedly high and rising in the major economies, the RBA is in a much better position to adjust monetary policy settings compared with the central banks of the US, the Eurozone ...

Market Movers Overnight: Bernanke's speech

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
... this year is premature and Chairman Bernanke's speech last night attested to that. This should provide comfort to other economies, including Australia, and should help in the financial markets' bottoming out process.

Market Movers Overnight (8 July)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
... releases overnight give further confirmation that the slowdown in the United States is spreading to other major world economies. German industrial production fell by 2.4 per cent in May from the previous month - the largest drop in nine years. Slowing ...

Schroders Greater Middle East fund raises $630m

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2008
... opportunities there. "In the investment universe we have defined as constituting the Greater Middle East, some of the economies are importers of energy - not exporters," he said. Schroders defines the Greater Middle East as the region that consists of ...

China's growth sustainable: Wang

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2008
Strong leadership, effective planning and a willingness to learn from Western economies guarantees the Chinese economy's growth is sustainable and will continue to flourish, according to Dr Xisu Wang, China grand master and foreign investment consultant. ...