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Managers up risk on improved sentiment

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
... the Australian dollar, European debt funding, interest rates and lastly, the domestic labour market. "Sentiment towards China tends to swing between two extremes. There are those who have suggested China's public debt, weakening export growth and a potential ...

What price surplus?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
... fell by 0.3% in the December quarter, a sharp reversal from the 14.6% jump in the previous one. And if last week's news on China becomes a portend of things to come - Chinese GDP grew at a less than expected 8.1% in the first quarter - we could be in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
... 3.43 per cent to 14,359 points. HONG KONG - Hong Kong and Chinese shares have risen as below forecast growth figures from China lifted hopes of fresh monetary easing by Beijing. The Hang Seng Index on Friday added 1.84 per cent, or 373.72 points, to ...

Best friends forever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... recovery show signs of weakening and that he's "not at all worried" over the massive stimulus the Fed has implemented so far. China also became a factor that brought smiles on investors' faces last night. It's not going to have a hard landing. In fact ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
The Australian market is set to open higher after stocks on Wall Street posted large gains on a surge in lending in China and a rise in eurozone industrial production. At 0802 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was up 27 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... 20,356.24. However, Shanghai rebounded from earlier losses to end 0.88 per cent higher, adding 20.08 points to 2,305.86. China said Tuesday it posted a trade surplus in March, reversing a massive deficit in February, but the figures showed that exports ...

Microinsurance reaches 500m people

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... Facility and chair of the Microinsurance Network. Asia represents 80% of the microinsurance market, driven by demand in China and especially India where 60% of the market resides. Latin America accounts for 15% and Africa makes up 5%, notes a new edition ...

Bring it on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... headed into 2012. European sovereign debt crisis. Check. Tepid growth in America. Check. Slowdown to a crash landing in China. Check. Middle East, North Korea, oil. Check. These challenges were all there - and then some - yet Wall Street produced its ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... on Tuesday. Bank of New Zealand currency strategist Mike Jones said that despite a generally positive trade reading from China, the analysis of the country's growth appeared more negative. "With the Chinese trade out yesterday, although the headline ...

Can't lose

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
... declined because of his plan to double the consumption tax from the current 5% to 10% by 2015. There was bad news out of China. CPI inflation accelerated to 3.6% in March against expectations for a 3.3% print and up from the previous month's 3.2% annual ...