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Australian pay rate growth underperforms Asia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... our Asian neighbours. In particular they expect pay rate jumps to be 13% in Vietnam, 11% in Indonesia and India, 10% in China, 8% in the Philippines and 6% in Malaysia. But unless surveys like this take even basic measures like inflation into account ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2012
... rose as dealers cheered an improvement in the US unemployment rate and another batch of manufacturing figures indicating China's economy is emerging from a slumber. Investors appeared unmoved by figures confirming Japan's economy shrank in the three ...

China's coming soft landing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2012
Australia might be worried about a hard landing for China's economy, but not many other nations seems to be. But it also raises the question about what is a hard landing in China? Even during the depths of the GFC, their (China's) economic growth dipped ...

China primed for encouraging rebound: HSBC

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2012
While global demand is likely to remain fragile, HSBC maintains its above-consensus forecast that China's 2013 GDP growth will recover to 8.6% after bottoming out in the fourth quarter of 2012. Much of HSBC's projected China rebound in 2013 and beyond ...

Rebalancing growth smoothly Australia's key challenge: Bloxham

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
... of the downward pressure on growth from the high exchange rate start to wear off in 2013-14." While he expects growth in China from 7.8% in 2012 to 8.6% in 2013 to help stabilise commodity prices, Bloxham said a key risk remains the global environment ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
... its Mac computers in the United States next year and will spend $100 million in 2013 to shift production of the line from China. Investors' biggest concern remains the collection of automatic tax increases and federal spending cuts scheduled to start ...

Upside for risk assets in 2013: Threadneedle

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
... equity and corporate credit markets. He says that the threat of a total disintegration of the eurozone has subsided and China's successful negotiation of both a leadership change and a soft landing has improved the global investment outlook. Burgess ...

Charts point to bull market run in 2013

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
... a major turning phase ahead of commencing its next bullish move," she explained. "Our market was running in tandem with China until July this year when the relationship disengaged." She warns that while more cyclically sensitive sectors might be expected ...

Down, down interest rates are down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012

Uncertainly certain RBA cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... uptrend and Wall Street was starting out strong. All because of the better-than expected manufacturing PMI report out of China - HSBC's measure moved into expansion territory for the first time in 13 months in November, the official measure rose to a ...