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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... to open significantly lower after heavy falls on Wall Street on Friday night. But encouraging manufacturing data out of China on the weekend could provide a boost for mining stocks. At 0735 AEST on Monday, the June share price index futures contract ...

Downswing in bond yields clear path for Absolute Return Fixed Income

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... the Mexican peso. Mexico has followed a very conservative economic policy, running a balanced budget. Wage increases in China also now mean that the economy now has a lower unit labour cost base than the world's second largest economy. While Djounov ...

Volatile safe-haven bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... went ahead and QE'd. For sure, there were other factors at play at the time - i.e., the euro crisis was still boiling hot, China's slowing - but it was the equity and bond market's reaction to the prospect of no QE (and the US economy's return to weakness) ...

Li gets what Li likes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... Joe are likely to unseat Julia and Wayne (ok, maybe that too) but because of similar changes at the top that transpired in China early this year. Xi Jinping and Li Kequiang replaced Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao as President and Prime Minister of China, respectively ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... The turbulence persisted for the next two sessions, with stocks driven down by a stronger yen and disappointing data from China which stoked fears about the world's second-largest economy, a major trade partner with Japan. In other markets, Seoul gained ...

Morphic global equities fund reaches $25m

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... Lowenstein and Chad Slater and its top stock contributors in April came mostly from Japan, followed by Korea, Turkey, the US and China. Minimum investment in the fund is $10,000, with minimum additional investments of $5,000. The responsible entity is ...

William Blair targets super fund investors with 'game theory'

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... says portfolio building today needs to consider the instability of the current geopolitical environment. Iran and Israel, China, Japan, and the eurozone are just some of the multiple players whose agendas can complicate the pursuit of investment opportunities. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... been making steady gains until Thursday when the benchmark index plummeted 7.3 per cent after disappointing data out of China stoked fears about the world's second-largest economy, a major trade partner with Japan. Seoul closed 0.33 per cent higher at ...

Careful of the recession you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... recession next year." The unifying rationale is, of course, the end of days for the mining and resources sectors...because China's no longer providing a tailwind and the non-mining and non-resources sectors of the Australian economy are still not contributing. ...

The day the music died

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
"Bye, bye miss American pie..." and pastries from Japan and China. Equity markets from New York to Rio and old London town dropped like flies over the past 24 hours. It would have been easy to put this down to the usual garden variety correction were ...