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Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
... the United States added to selling pressure, while continuing tensions on the Korean peninsula and a bird flu outbreak in China also weighed on sentiment. Tokyo rose 2.80 per cent, or 358.95 points, to 13,192.59 - its highest close since August 12, 2008 ...

BOJ brings out big bazooka

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
... Japan, after all, is our second biggest export market (according to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade), next to China. According to DFAT data, Japan accounts for 17% of Australia's total exports as at the end of 2011, second only to China which ...

First quarter (w)innings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
... than you, I and Irene expected; The inconclusive Italian elections (it still is) and comeback bunga bunga boy Berlusconi; China's property curbs (it's still at it); and of course, Cyprus. Yet by 5 March, the Dow has climbed up and over its 2007 peak ...

No end in sight for renminbi rally

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
... by goods, resulting in an increased focused on the Chinese consumer. This would benefit investors in emerging markets or China specific funds because most portfolio managers have already positioned to take advantage of the theme. AllianceBernstein is ...

South Africa leads foreign investment in the continent

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTD). The report was published ahead of the fifth Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) summit to be held in Durban, South Africa, at the end of this month. It shows that FDI in South Africa ...

Falling BRICs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
... the BRICs. They're all underwater. Brazilian equities are down by 7.5% to date, Russia's off 3.1%, India's shed 2.9% and China is 0.5% lower. Bloomberg reports that this is because domestic BRIC investors are taking their money out of their domestic ...

AMP Capital appoints new Asian portfolio manager

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... telecoms, utilities and healthcare sectors for the Pan Asia portfolio as well as consumer discretionary for the Asia ex-Greater China fund. Before joining AMP Capital, Peng spent three years as an investment analyst covering Asian equities at Ward Ferry ...

Magellan wins $3bn milestone mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... Magellan's portfolio invests in 25 companies and focuses on the United States recovery, the growth of the consumer market in China and new technologies. "Positive signs in the US such as unemployment recovering, growing activity in the housing market ...

Advisers open to double allocation to global equities

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... "Australia has more gas than it can use and will become one of the largest gas exporters in the world," she said. "Demand from China will continue to grow and cleanliness and relative cheapness of gas will see cars and other machines converted to run ...

Still the best game in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... sure, there was some not so good news out over the weekend that traders could have used as an excuse to bag some profits: China's inflation jumped to 3.2% in February from 2.0% in the previous month. This could limit the PBOC's scope for stimulation ...