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IAG urges Asia focus

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... are already market laggards. IAG is currently targeting six priority markets in Asia including Thailand, Malaysia, India, China, Vietnam and Indonesia. Wilkins said that IAG currently has $460 million investment in five of those six countries but are ...

Ben's turn to be super

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... remains uncomfortably high. If Uncle Ben needs any justification to do a Super Mario, he's got them now. More so now, now that China's started stimulation of its own. The latest of which is the 1 trillion yuan worth of infrastructure projects to build ...

Faith in monetary policy spawns new investment theme

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... move backwards amid Government spending cuts while fiscal responsibility remains a key factor in the coming US election. "China knew it had overdone it and immediately started pulling fiscal stimulus sooner than Europe or the US did so we lost a very ...

Australia: all good and wishing for the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... more rolled gold GDP," cries Stephen Koukoulas in Business Spectator. Call in the usual suspects. There's slowing growth in China, tepid growth in America and recession in Euroland. There's the falling price of commodities - especially iron ore (one ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... weak Chinese manufacturing data fuelled hopes for a fresh round of monetary easing by Beijing. The downbeat figures out of China added to expectations of more stimulus measures in the United States following strong hints from Federal Reserve chief Ben ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
... market opened lower after figures released over the weekend showed manufacturing activity in Australia's key trading partner China slumped to a nine-month low in August. China's purchasing managers' index (PMI) fell to 49.2 index points in August, from ...

Variant Perceptions' variant perception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... cliff," putting it out there that "... the developed world's fastest growing... will fall in to recession next year as the China-driven mining investment boom ends." Followed by: Is Australia... in the same boat as Europe?" Why bother with the question ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... revision of American gross domestic product (GDP) growth, while the euro was mixed after supportive comments by Germany and China for the single currency. Tokyo fell by 0.95 per cent, or 86.03 points, to 8983.78 and Seoul lost 1.15 per cent, or 22.16 ...

Principal Global gets $150m QFII quota

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
... Investors has been approved for a $150m Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) quota to be invested directly in China's A-share markets. The quota approval from the Chinese State Administration of Foreign Exchange builds on the QFII designation ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
... overnight. "Today is about the material and industrial space, with the focus on iron ore prices and whether the slowdown in China is going to have reverberations in our mining industry," Mr Weston said. "Defensive stocks are doing well, and any stocks ...