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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... and Sydney shed 0.72 per cent, or 30.9 points, to 4,277.3 but Seoul advanced 0.30 per cent, or 5.81 points, to 1,946.40. China's General Administration of Customs said exports grew just one per cent in July year-on-year to $US176.9 billion ($A168 billion) ...

Doing our bit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... US economy is getting healthy or that he wants to have his cake and eat it too. The week finished with a data dump from China that, according to reports, mostly confirmed that the Politburo's and the People's Bank of China's recent efforts to re-accelerate ...

Unique investment opportunity in water

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... increased global demand from industrialising emerging markets is also the problem of supply contamination, Lourey said, with China being held up as an example of industrial effluent including heavy metals as well as hormonal products fed to livestock ...

The QE Paradox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... with Bloomberg. "So, it's the perfect storm! You could have a collapse of the eurozone, a US double-dip, hard-landing of China, hard-landing of emerging markets, and a war in the Middle East. Next year could be a global perfect storm." Or yesterday's ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... currency fell to $US1.2277 from $US1.2363 in New York late Wednesday. HONG KONG - Asian markets mostly rose with data showing China's output slowed and inflation hit a two-and-a-half-year low, lifting hopes for fresh easing measures to boost the world's ...

ACCI calls for right to sue foreign govs

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... Since that time, Australia has signed a FTA with Malaysia and is currently in the process of negotiating agreements with China, India, Japan, Korea and Indonesia among others.

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
Australian shares opened slightly higher as the resources sector posts gains after Rio Tinto predicted China would have a quick recovery in its pace of growth. At 1014 AEST on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 12.8 points, or 0.3 per ...

Known knowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... or even at the beginning of the year. Financial markets are already trading on known knowns. Euro disintegration? Check. China hard landing? Check. Limping US economy. Check and check and heck, financial markets have even blown these scares out of proportion. ...

Blahs take the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... already know this. Heck, we're even contemplating total annihilation of the euro some months back and a crash landing in China and a double dip in America and food shortages... and another term for Julia Gillard as PM (ok, I made that one up). All these ...

Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Noi! Noi! Noi!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
... the flow of offshore storms. As the RBA Governor declared last week, "If the thing that goes wrong is a serious slump in China's economy, the Australian dollar would probably fall, which would provide expansionary impetus to the Australian economy." ...