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Demand for US Treasuries outstrips supply

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
... demand for US Treasury bonds has seen foreign ownership of US government debt increase to more than US$5 trillion, with China, Japan and Brazil significantly upping their holdings. The US is now so reliant on China to buy this debt that the US government ...

Bad news? What bad news?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
... they want to hear, the equity markets' performance over the past 24 hours will make a believer out of ya'll. Forget Europe, China's coming to the rescue. Yes folks, this is how it all began. Asia took pole position as investors closed their eyes and ...

Show me the stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... that Greece has blinked. Everybody's happy. One more time, hip, hip... Ok that's Europe done... for now. But there's still China and the latest PMI survey confirmed that it is indeed slowing. HSBC's preliminary measure showed the manufacturing index ...

Managers confident on value as China PMI contracts

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
... "This calls for more aggressive policy easing, as inflation continues to slow," said Qu Hongbin, HSBC's chief economist, China. "Beijing policy makers have been and will step up easing efforts to stabilise growth, as indicated by a slew of measures to ...

Fidante Partners continues expansion with new hire

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2012
... Fidante's most recently acquisition was MIR, a wholesale funds manager funds specializing Asia-Pacific (ex Japan) and Greater China equities strategies, which took total FUM to $18.8bn. Fidante said there are no imminent plans for more acquisitions ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012
... Westpac-Melbourne Institute report were behind the local market's declines. However, Mr Smith said, he expected the growth in China would support Australia's major resources exporters in later trading. "China has got a lot of re-building and building ...

Grexit sends investors running for bonds

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012
... Australia's exports go to the eurozone. But developments there impact Australia indirectly via our trading partners (such as China, which sees 20% of its exports go to Europe), confidence and global financial markets as banks and other companies obtain ...

Henderson grows footprint in Asia-Pacific

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2012
... Australia is part of Henderson's strategy to grow its footprint in high-value markets in the Asia Pacific region, including China, Japan and Australia. "Henderson has an extensive history in Australia and a supportive shareholder base. It has long been ...

Missed the bottom?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2012
... can to keep the Eurozone whole despite the brinkmanship, despite the game of chicken. On this score, one power that is - China - could soon be doing its part with Premier Wen Jiabao announcing that, "We should continue to implement a proactive fiscal ...

Investors focus on Russian consumer stocks

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... emerging markets. According to Hanson-Lawson, 63% of Russian GDP is represented by consumption, compared with about 35% for China, although indices in Russia are weighted around 75% to commodities, about 55% of which is composed of oil and gas. For this ...