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China's communist and it works

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... Read: "Finding New Excuses to Maintain Low Interest Rates For Longer". We'll know for sure this coming Friday. Meanwhile, China's in trouble again. No, it's not that Virginia. It's not because of Australian business mogul and Member of Parliament Clive ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... some progress cited in the "difficult" negotiations between the two sides. Also weighing on sentiment was a report showing China's foreign direct investment slumped to a two-year low, adding to a series of downbeat data about the world's second largest ...

Fear me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... the 1st of August when the markets faced the sum of all its fears - Argentina default, Putin, Israel, Iraq, slow growth in China, faster growth in the US that could prompt earlier rate hike by the Fed - that instigated speculation that it would be the ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... KONG - Hong Kong shares have closed 0.62 per cent higher, with a surge in telecommunication stocks - prompted by gains in China Mobile - lifting the benchmark index to a six-year high. The Hang Seng Index added 153.58 points to 24,954.94 by the close ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
... slipped to $US1.3363 from $US1.3368 late on Tuesday in New York. HONG KONG - Asian shares were mixed as downbeat data from China and Japan sparked renewed concerns for growth in the region's two biggest economies. Tokyo shrugged off early losses to close ...

China's winning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... aside, there's also good news on that big country that has been conspicuous in its silence on geo-politics - and its name is China. Weekend news reported that China's inflation steadied at an annual rate of 2.3% in July from June - in line with market ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... fluctuated through afternoon trade before closing down 0.23 per cent, or 56.15 points, to 24,331.41. However, stocks in mainland China bucked the downward regional trend after the world's second-largest economy saw export growth accelerate. Shanghai ...

Super tax in firing line

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... Su-Lin Ong and ASPAC-KPMG head of financial services Simon Gleave. The expert panel debated everything from the slowdown in China to housing bubble fears. Ong expressed concern about a surprise jump in domestic unemployment to 6.4% which she said represented ...

CBA sees two top execs step down

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... remain in his current role." Blair will continue in full time employment with CBA and will remain in the group's boards in China, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Blair joined CBA in 2006 as chief executive officer of Sovereign Insurance and joined ...

US/EU v Russia's lose-lose is China's win-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... more should 'em big boys take us back to the days of the Cold War. Welcome back Bond, James Bond! And this brings me to China. While the US/EU and Russia are playing a lose-lose battle, the more they battle, the more China win-wins. I could almost hear ...