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Corporate Asian bonds on fire: HSBC

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
... Philippines have witnessed rapid growth over the past year, HSBC research attributes the vast chunk of the growth in bonds to China with corporate debt playing catch-up with pre-GFC government bond issuances. The rise of local currency bond markets as ...

China: economy rising, market sinking

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
... the problem another day, perhaps when the economy is in much better shape. In the meantime, things continue to look up in China. Tthe National Bureau of Statistics and China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing reported that the country's manufacturing ...

Commodities boom over: UBS

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... demand which contributed to the sector's explosion over the last decade are now driving prices lower. "On the demand side, China is settling into a more moderate pace of economic growth, while developed economies struggle with deleveraging headwinds," ...

Diamond in the region

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... worry about the cliff and persistent economic malady in Europe, one Asian country is going its own merry way. No, it's not China - although economic indicators have been improving there too. That Asian country is the Philippines - the land of my birth. ...

Coming in 2014: Aussie recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... 1.50 Euro-Swiss franc exchange rate has not gone beyond 1.22 this year. 8 US dollar-yuan rate rises 10 per cent to 7... China gets to the brink of a "recession", meaning 5 to 6 per cent GDP growth. US dollar has not passed 6.39 yuan so far this year... ...

Interest rates to tumble below 2.5%: BlackRock

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... for investment is that we have to learn to invest with significant risks around us. The eurozone crisis will resurface, China is now on a different growth track to the one people have enjoyed for 10 years and the US fiscal cliff will threaten the global ...

Double-digit Asian equity returns in 2013: BlackRock

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
... strong year for Asia Pacific equities with the chance of high double-digit returns. Central to his view is the fact that China appears to have successfully negotiated a soft-landing, opening the door to a loosening of monetary policy and an uptick in ...

Flip flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
... although it's become lesser of a concern these days, there's still flip-flopping between a hard landing and take off re China. Looks like 2012 will end the way it began, ey? In its latest report headed, "Survey of fiduciaries identifies the most serious ...

Giving thanks to thanksgiving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
... increased by 26% to US$1.04 billion - the first ever - this Black Friday from the same day last year. It's same old same old for China. No big changes apart from the PM-in-waiting, Li Kequiang, spelling out his plans for greater urbanisation... and this ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
... annual general meetings scheduled. National Australia Bank chairman Dr Michael Chaney and Rio Tinto's managing director for China Ian Bauert are among the speakers due to address the University of Western Australia In The Zone conference. In Australia ...