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First six months flat for Platinum

... world stage emerging markets were the best performers taking advantage of investors' readiness to accept higher risk levels. South America and the Middle East were the finest performers gaining more than 20 per cent each. Asian markets, excluding Japan ...

Australian-Thai FTA signed

... signed a free trade agreement (FTA) with confidence growing it will deepened Australia\'s economic links with South East Asia. Prime ministers Thaksin Shinawatra and John Howard signed the deal, along with several other agreements covering environment ...

ASEAN nations to push for FTA with Australia

South-East Asia's economic ministers said today they would urge their leaders to finally broker a free trade agreement with Australia and New Zealand. The economics ministers, meeting for one day in Singapore, will also recommend the leaders of Australia ...

All eyes this week on RBA governor speech: economists

... Australia's second biggest national export market. China's growth has helped the growth of Japan, Korea, Taiwan and South East Asia, economies which together with China now account for well over half of Australia's exports. "The new strength of the global ...

New tax amendment to strengthen investment ties with Malaysia: Coonan

... dividends, royalties and other income." Malaysia is Australia's third largest trading partner in ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) and the nation's 11th largest partner overall. Australia is Malaysia's 12th largest export market for goods ...

Short-term overseas visitor arrivals for August dips 0.2% to 391,300: ABS

... Zealand, with 74,800), 73,600 from Europe and the former USSR (with UK visitors numbering 36,000), 6,500 from the Middle East and North Africa, 44,100 from Southeast Asia, 36,700 from the Americas (with 30,200 from the USA) and 4,800 from Africa. Total ...

Senator Campbell calls for single Asia-Pacific finance market

... Campbell has announced. He said Australia would benefit greatly from an integrated market taking in the United States, Japan, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and New Zealand. "A single market with this ...

Morning market wrap: Power blackout hits US share price futures, supports bonds

... a cause of the power cuts. Earlier in the day, President Bush announced alleged terrorist 'Hambali' had been captured in south-east Asia and was now in US custody. The president's announcement, along with a slew of solid economic data, helped set the ...

Morning market wrap: Asian economies under pressure

East Asian economies are under pressure following North Korea's alleged admission of having a nuclear bomb. Stocks in South Korea and Japan fell by 3.5 per cent and 2% respectively as a consequence of the admission. Tokyo's Nikkei index is at a 20 year ...