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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2011
The Australian share market lost more ground during intra-day trading, with mining stocks falling on a negative outlook for iron ore prices. The major indices opened around one per cent lower and by midday had marked deeper losses. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

APRA executive appointed secretary general of Basel

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
... membership stands at 20 countries, and includes the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain China, India and Brazil.

Inflation not currency worrying the RBA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
... better than average conditions," they noted. For evidence of this, take a look at the growth in another resources currency, Brazil's 'real', which has appreciated almost identically to what's been happening to the AUD, reveals The Economist. Adding to ...

Fed move checks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... currency debasement and inflation" and won't boost employment." Similarly, finance authorities of Germany, France, China, Brazil and most emerging markets criticised the Fed's November 2010 decision and even publicly called it "irresponsible". There'll ...

LICs benefit from FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
The impending loss of trailing commissions for managed funds has made listed investment companies more attractive by leveling the playing field, an industry insider said yesterday. John Robinson, chairman of Global Mining Investments (GMI), a listed ...

Super funds hit back at anti-carbon tax groups

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... said that emissions coverage and financial scale of climate change action by China, the European Union, the United States, Brazil and many other countries dwarfs that by Australia, in line with the relative size of their economies. The ACCI was contacted ...

Debt crisis not so bad for Latin America

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... crisis sees Latin America shape up to an attractive investment outlook. Generally regarded for its dependency on exports, Brazil in particular is coming more into the investor eye. The nation will soon be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics, with ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
The Australian stock market was lower at noon after local inflation data sent the Australian dollar higher, and as the US debt ceiling stalemate continued. At 1200 AEST on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 20.2 points, or 0.44 per cent ...

Food profits to rise: Macquarie

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... had actually risen along with prices in the past year, he told a Sydney media luncheon. And the competitive threat from Brazil had been neutralised as the US dollar had weakened against the Brazilian Real, he said. The fund owns 31,500sq km of Australian ...

US to avoid default, EM stocks to rise: Janus

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... expected commodity prices to top out, helping emerging market stocks rally. "Most people aren't really aware that China and Brazil underperformed the S&P by about 30 per cent in the last 15 months," he said. Even though those economies had been growing ...