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Australia's big bro

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010
... Dateline 1 July 1997. Many will remember this day, the day that the United Kingdom handed Hong Kong back to the People's Republic of China. There was much trepidation and fear in the air leading up to the expiration of the UK's 99-year lease on the territory. ...

Darby buys into Mexican housing

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... Grupo Financiero Banorte, Merchant Bankers Asociados (MBA - Lazard) in Argentina and Banco Multiple Leon in the Dominican Republic.

Aviva takes over Henderson property fund

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2010
... 37.2 per cent at the end of May, and also has investments in Japan (17.2 per cent), Singapore (19 per cent) and Czech Republic (11 per cent).

Nein to naked shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
... -- know and have experienced the fate that awaited a severely devalued currency. Flashback to 1923. During the Weimar Republic, German inflation surged to such a level that the Rentenmark -- Germany's official currency at the time -- traded at 4 trillion ...

Gold is hip again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
... the paper it's printed on -- think Zimbabwe... or if you cast your memory way further back, think of Germany's Weimar Republic. Hey, that's also in Europe! In case you missed it, gold has already appreciated by 13 per cent since the start of 2010 to ...

When old news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
Wall Street must have gotten up on the right side of the bed today. Well the Dow has been in 10 of the past 11 trading days. But last night, it was more cheerful. The pace of the Dow's upward march nearly doubled - closing almost 1 per cent higher on ...

AXA pushes into Romanian life market

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
... strategy to accelerate its development in Central and Eastern Europe. The firm already has a presence in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. The firm has already generated $730 million in revenue from its life insurance operations in Central ...

Now that's challenging

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
We knew 2010 would be challenging, but not this way. Not like this. Yes Virginia, we agreed that 2010 would be challenging. We thought it would be challenging because America would experience turtle-paced economic growth at best. We thought it would ...

ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
Going nowhere fast. This is what the Dow did over the past two days. The Dow Jones Industrial Index dropped 122 points - the biggest since mid-December - after rallying by 116 points the day before. The Dow closed at a 15-month high on speculation that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2010
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher after US and European stocks and commodity prices gained overnight. At 0650 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was 33 points higher at 4,876. In economics news ...