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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
Australian stocks have opened stronger following news China will lift controls on lending interest rates. The ASX200 index is back above 5000 points as the market rebounds from Friday's losses. IG market strategist Chris Weston said the market received ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... mostly unchanged with investors digesting disappointing results from Google and Microsoft and hints of financial reform in China. At close, London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares slipped 0.06 per cent to end at 6,630.67 points. Frankfurt's DAX 30 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... Thursday, Mr Shamu said. "The market has taken that in its stride," he said. Mr Shamu said he believed slower growth in China was helping the Australian dollar. "China has been a bit of a mixed bag recently. "But we're now getting accustomed to getting ...

Economy 'not running out of puff': Wayne Swan

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... decade. He acknowledged that success in what the government has dubbed the 'Asian Century' cannot rely on unfettered growth in China to support the mining sector but Australia, following 22 years of uninterrupted GDP growth, was well placed to take advantage ...

Sovereign wealth funds climb to US$5.5tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... US$737 billion was reported as the world's largest SWF followed by UAE Abu Dhabi's Investment Authority with US$627 billion, China's SAFE Investment Company with US$568 billion, Saudi Arabia's SAMA Foreign Holdings Fund with US$533 billion and China's ...

Australian economy "professionally managed": World Bank

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... Union. These treaties outline how the region is governed and the mandate of the ECB. Focusing on concerns about a slowdown in China, Basu said he was relaxed about the long-term prospects for the region but said global economies need to be prepared for ...

Limbo of uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
... Dow and the S&P 500 were both posting ever higher record highs (almost daily), there were some whispers of a slowdown in China but only a few believed, paid attention or really cared, Japan only just unveiled a mammoth monetary policy stimulus and there ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
... US retail sales figures. US retail sales rose just 0.4 per cent in June, below the 0.7 per cent expected by analysts. But China's second-quarter gross domestic product growth came in at 7.5 per cent, in line with expectations and better than what some ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... quarter. IG market strategist Stan Shamu said he expected local gains to be mild until investors saw what was happening in China. Predictions are for gross domestic growth (GDP) for the quarter to be 7.5 per cent, with anything lower set to send the ...

Designer slowdown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... Financial markets are spooked that Chinese authorities could/are making a policy mistake. Nope Virginia, what's happening in China is not an accident but by grand Politburo design. How many times must Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Kequiang ...