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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... market looks set to open lower following falls on major international markets on the back of disappointing April PMI data for China and the eurozone and as some US earnings results missed expectations. At 0755 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index ...

Dickens on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
... the sixth straight month of gains - but presidential elections in France creates a new source of uncertainty for Europe. China's economy is slowing but authorities are poised to ease policy settings. My, oh my, no wonder the financial markets find it ...

Market Wrap-Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
... flat, adding 15.63 points to 21,010.64 while Shanghai closed 1.19 per cent, or 28.23 points, higher at 2,406.86 on hopes China will announce monetary easing measures soon after comments to that effect from a central bank official this week. WELLINGTON ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012
... Australia, the market on Thursday closed at a fresh eight-month high, buoyed by resource stocks and investors punting on China undertaking new moves to boost its economy. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 14 points, or 0.32 per cent, at 4,362.7 points ...

HSBC announces first int'l RMB bond

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2012
... march on us in terms of new products and new markets. We are the natural home in the West for those who want to invest in China's economic success story," said Osborne. "We are proud to be able to issue this bond. It represents another step in London's ...

$10bn in Asia M&A deals so far in 2012

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2012
... M&A activity. Financial services acquisitions claimed fifth place. Just over one-third of all these opportunities were in China. Financial advisory firms involved in the most M&A transactions were HSBC, Maybank Investment Bank, OSK Investment Bank, PWC ...

Alphinity backs growth in energy sector

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012
... cycle for steel although there is a short term tactical way of playing that sector as momentum improves on the ground in China," said Stephane Andre, Alphinity principal and portfolio manager, adding that the China steel production growth rate is slowing ...

Australian finance sector jobs plummet

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... retrenched bankers to hire talent. Hong Kong has seen more redundancies in investment banking than Australia, Singapore and China, the research found, while sector recruitment in Singapore remains largely driven by demand for private banking relationship ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... Smith said there were signs the US economy was starting to pick up, adding that he believed suggestions of a slowdown in China had been overstated. "I'm very confident about where the market is headed, all things being considered," Mr Smith said. "Once ...

Dip buyers buy the dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... heart-thumping 2.0% last week! You'll break into a cold sweat reading about Spanish 10-year bond yields breaking above 6% or that China's economy is, indeed, slowing. But as we've seen overnight, these have not prevented the dip buyers from buying the ...