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China manuf growth figures being misread

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
HSBC's flash China Purchasing Managers' Index result released last week is being read as further evidence of a broad-based manufacturing slowdown, but this misinterprets what's going on in the sector, said Premium China Funds Management. The common ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... media at Seven Group Holdings, which holds investments in Seven West, earthmoving company WesTrac and Agricultural Bank of China. At 1220 AEST Seven West shares have fallen 19 cents to 1.78. The mining giants were lower or flat at noon. BHP Billiton ...

Is this the crisis moment?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... preparing to renegotiate for less austerity. Away from Europe, America could be heading into a "fiscal cliff" by year end and China is reportedly cooking its books to show that its economy is growing more than it is. The bad news are all out there and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... US stocks slid sharply, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average sinking two per cent, as disappointing economic data from China and Europe followed the Federal Reserve's slashing its growth forecast for the United States. At the close the Dow Jones Industrial ...

Premium China expands distribution team

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... education on investing into the debt sector following last year's launch of the Premium Asia Income Fund has lead Premium China Funds Management to reconfigure its distribution team. The company has made two new hires in marketing and research and increased ...

Census 2011: Australia is changing, and fast

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... non-anglo heritage groupings and the West Asian language of Punjabi is the fastest growing second language. Add in Cantonese and China based languages are now almost 3-times more widely used than Italian, whose usage has in anycase fallen. Hinduism is ...

Fundamentally challenged

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... since July 2011 - from 54.0 last month. Markit's PMI releases also showed continuing contraction in factory activity in China and the Eurozone. China's PMI fell to 48.1 in June from 48.4 in the previous month. The euro area's index decelerated to 44.8 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... market looks set to open lower after falls of two per cent on Wall Street overnight as disappointing economic data from China and Europe followed the Federal Reserve's slashing its growth forecast for the United States. At 0815 AEST on Friday, the June ...

BRIC slows on Europe woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... growth has more than halved to 5.6% in the first three months of 2012 from 12.6% in the same quarter of 2010. Similarly, China's expansion has slowed steadily from an annual rate of 11.9% back in the first quarter of 2010 to 8.1% in the first three months ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... over whether the country will stay in the single currency. The results were also welcomed by the governments of Japan and China -- two of Europe's biggest creditors -- which called for leaders in Greece to act quickly to form a cabinet. Tokyo stocks ...