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Credit Suisse global appointments

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
... global head of commodities in August this year. His previous experience includes head of trading and supply at LITASCO for Russian oil company, Lukoil. In the London-based role, Hawkins will develop the bank's commodities business and report to co-heads ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
... picked up 0.8 per cent, while Hess added 1.6 per cent and Marathon 2.8 per cent. The day saw the entry to the market of Russian internet search power Yandex, the first Russian company to carry out an initial public offering on the Nasdaq since 2006. ...

ASIC silent on possible research probe

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... advisory firm is being sued for ushering clients into Trio/Astarra, said advisers were in a no-win situation. "We're playing Russian roulette with our reputations and our futures," he said. "We can't rely on audited accounts, we can't rely on the corporations ...

The other emerging market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... Shanghai Composite Index over the past 15 months. Indian shares rose by 11.3 per cent - good... but not good enough. Only Russian scripts lived up to their emerging market and BRIC label - they soared by 30 per cent in 15 months. That's great! But you'll ...

China, Russia dump USD for bilateral trade

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
... the greenback's instability and sliding relevance. "About trade settlement, we have decided to use our own currencies," Russian president Vladimir Putin told the China Daily. The initiative has already seen trading commence between the Chinese yuan and ...

Fearing September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
... The S&P 500 also produced strong monthly gains of 5.3 per cent in 1997 (the Asian financial crisis) and 6.2 per cent (Russian default and the collapse of Long-term Capital Management). In the current financial market environment where everyone and his ...

Bond rush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
... 30-year return of 9.5 per cent. Yes, this includes the 1987 crash, the 1990/91 recession, Asian financial crisis, the Russian default, the bursting of the dtocom bubble, the 2001 US recession and September 11, and the GFC, among others. The herd mentality ...

Too much ado about Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
... in the minds of authorities. Not given recent history. The IMF was there during the Asian currency crisis of 1997, the Russian debt default of 1998 and the Argentina financial crisis of 1999. What is important is that China and the US remain strong. ...

Farmland ripe for the picking

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
... time last year. Pensions & Investment reported that AP3, a European pension fund, has invested $40 million in a number of Russian listed companies that invest in farmland.

Posh playground turns sandpit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
... worldwide attention." Well if it hasn't before, it surely is attracting worldwide attention now. As in the past - think Russian default in 1998, think Argentinian default in 2002 - credit spreads on emerging market debt spiked and equity markets fall ...