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May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... in the first place. You know, the same way your partner becomes an ex- when he/she/it doesn't cut the mustard. Anyways, China had some nasty news too, which is bad for Australia and the world. China's official PMI slip to 50.6 in April from 50.9 in March ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... Wednesday. The broader Topix index of all first-section shares slipped 0.58 per cent, or 6.76 points, to 1158.27. Markets in China, Hong Kong, South Korea, India, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan and Singapore were all closed on Wednesday ...

Insto investors bullish on equities: EIU survey

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
... times as fast as the US and contrasts starkly to a 0.4% contraction in the euro zone. Global investors were still bullish on China, despite last year's fears about deceleration which have been replaced by expectations of a Chinese "soft landing" and ...

Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
... year, increasing its equity investments to about $18.6 billion, or 5.7 percent of the total, up from 5.4 percent in 2011. China's foreign-exchange regulator said in January it has sought "innovative use" of its $3.4 trillion in assets, the world's biggest ...

NZ Super sells forestry assets to Chinese state owned company

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
... "We are always working to ensure that we have the best possible mix of investments in the Fund," he said. The purchaser is China National Forest Products Trading Corporation and subsidiary of the state-owned China Forestry Group Corporation. It has purchased ...

It's the headlines, you twit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
... results from the Empire State and the Philly Fed surveys indicated that US growth momentum is on the slow lane. Headline: "China's Recovery Falters as Manufacturing Growth Cools". Opening para: "China's manufacturing is expanding at a slower pace this ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
... overnight as traders focused on corporate earnings and brushed aside weaker-than-expected economic data out of Germany and China. At 0744 AEST on Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was up 50 points at 5,052. In economic news on Wednesday ...

Three arrows hitting the spot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
... riding on Tokyo's success - it's the second biggest buyer of our exports - especially at this time when our biggest buyer, China, has accepted that slower growth is the price it has to pay for economic reform. According to People's Bank of China Governor ...

A week's walk on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
... short memory lane to see this. Monday: S&P 500 tumbled 2.3% following gold's biggest dive in 33 years, disappointment that China only grew 7.7% in the first quarter when most expected an 8.0% print and anxiety over the Boston bombings. And oh, indications ...

May's not far away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013
... We've already touched on the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) downgrade of global economic growth from 3.3% to 3.5%, China's disappointing 7.7% GDP scorecard in the first quarter, anxiety over renewed terrorist threats in the USA after the Boston ...