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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
The outlook is positive for the Australian market on Thursday, with strong leads from Wall Street and European equities markets overnight, and higher prices in oil and precious metals. At 0711 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract ...

Gillard urges China investment relationship

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... developed. During her visit to North Asia, Gillard has also spoken about the benefits of speeding up free trade deals with South Korea and Japan. She also said that a strong regulatory regime was necessary for continued success. "A clear, reliable, legal ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... 1,302.65. Shares in medical instrument makers and wine companies led gains while coal miners and financials weakened. South Korea's Kospi extended losses after the central bank raised its key interest rate for the second time in three months. The index ...

Open fire roasted bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... expectations of only a paltry increase to 54.8. This was the fourth straight monthly rise. HSBC's PMIs for India, South Korea and Taiwan also showed manufacturing expanding in these countries. Two: The European Central Bank would do what it takes to ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... cents to $83.76. Fortescue Metals was down four cents at $6.36. Equity markets fell overnight after North Korea and South Korea exchanged artillery fire near their disputed sea border, killing at least two South Korean marines. Shares also fell in Europe ...

When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... more than half a century. They had big skirmishes in 1999, in 2002 and just last March. The world got along nicely. South Korea even grew wealthy and is the only Asian country to become a member of the rich club of nations - the OECD - apart from Japan ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... cent. The banks mainly were higher at noon. ANZ was leading the way, after reports the bank failed to win control of South Korea's fifth-largest bank. According to the Wall Street Journal, South Korea's Hana Financial Group won control of Korea Exchange ...

What ifs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... of the first world war that happened nine decades and two years ago, the leaders of the G-20 nations are meeting in South Korea, all hoping that they would not have to sign their own version of an armistice. Each hopes that an all out currency war could ...

G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... chatter and too little done. Financial markets were right to expect that the brewing currency war would be discussed in South Korea. But they were also correct to anticipate that nothing of substance will eventuate. Heck, they were not even able to stop ...

Australia well behind in carbon pricing

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... global research into carbon pricing in the electricity sector of six key economies - Australia, China, USA, UK, Japan, South Korea. According to the research, Australia is well behind its competitors in the UK, China and the US in terms of making businesses ...