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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
... in response to an official crackdown on margin trading. Hong Kong rose 0.90 per cent, or 212.67 points, to 23,951.16. Beijing's statistics bureau said on Tuesday the world's second-biggest economy expanded 7.4 per cent in 2014. While the figure is down ...

Standard Life Inv strengthens strategy team

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... He has eight years of investment experience and joins from the US State Department, where he served as a US diplomat in Beijing and Taipei. Prior to that, he held posts at BAE Systems and Lehman Brothers. Also based in Edinburgh, Wolf will report to ...

Ruble trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
Chances are there won't be any "shirt-fronting" happening in Beijing when Prime Minister Tony Abbott faces-off with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing this week. Tony doesn't have to, Russia's very own central bank have done it for him days ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... pineapple stems, is due to start trading on the ASX. In Australia, the market on Wednesday closed higher on expectations Beijing will roll out more economic stimulus measures after Chinese inflation fell close to a five-year low. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Time to get shorty?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014

The ECB can't make the horse drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... few percentage points are all it took for the Australian equity market to get into what the financial presses call the "Beijing bounce". Two percentage points above the previous month and five percentage points more than consensus expectations to be ...

Billionaires: How typical are you?

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... across the regions with New York home to the highest number - 103 - with Moscow (85), Hong Kong (82), London (72) and Beijing (37) and Sao Paulo (36) following suit.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... Ahead of the major events, investors reacted to weak Chinese economic data and a possible shake-up of the beer industry. Beijing said on Saturday that industrial production grew by 6.9 per cent last month, its weakest rate since December 2008. HONG KONG ...

Record profits for Standard Life Investments

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
... Standard Life Investments' maintains offices in a number of locations around the globe including Boston, Hong Kong, London, Beijing, Montreal, Sydney, Dublin, Paris and Seoul.

Run with bulls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... jumped by 26.1% in the year to June from 24.6% year-on-year in May, "...in June as budgetary outlays accelerated following Beijing's call to support economic activity". Finally in the Land of the Rising Sun, while it's central bank is not expected to ...