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A liquid Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
... 50 bps and extending their expiration by another six months from 1 August 2012 to 1 February 2013 - the People's Bank of China had already revealed liquification efforts of its own. The PBOC cut its banks' reserve requirement ratio by 50 bps to 21% effective ...

S&P downgrades US bank ratings

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... Stanley Royal Bank of Scotland Plc UBS AG Wells Fargo & Co. S&P upgraded the ratings of the following institutions: Bank of China Ltd. China Construction Bank Corp.

OECD: Economy to grow by 4% next year

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2011
... would ease to 8.5 per cent from 9.3 per cent this year, before climbing back to 9.5 per cent in 2012. "Weaker activity in China and other emerging-market economies together with modest falls in commodity prices should put inflation in these countries ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2011
... the market on Wednesday fell 1.9 per cent to an almost seven-week low after the release of weak manufacturing figures in China. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed down 82 points, or 1.98 per cent, at 4,051, while the broader All Ordinaries index slipped ...

Nothing new

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
... rating because "Japan's finances are getting worse and worse every day, every second". And still on Asia, Reuters reports China's industry ministry predicting industrial production growth to slow to around 12%-13% next year from 14% this year because ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2011
... auction fuelled fears over Europe's fiscal crisis and weak growth in the eurozone, a major US trading partner. Meanwhile, China's manufacturing activity slumped to its lowest level in 32 months in November, banking giant HSBC said on Wednesday, renewing ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2011
... the market on Wednesday fell 1.9 per cent to an almost seven-week low after the release of weak manufacturing figures in China. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed down 82 points, or 1.98 per cent, at 4,051, while the broader All Ordinaries index slipped ...

Another lonely night

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2011
... than a balanced recession" the other day? Well, yesterday's surprisingly negative PMI data has spurred speculation that China could join the others to form a "balanced recession". HSBC's China manufacturing PMI fell to 48 in November - below 50 suggests ...

Dead calm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... rating. It was more of the same in the orient too with the World Bank, in its latest semi-annual report, predicting that China is headed for a soft landing and that it and other countries in Asia are likely to withstand the ill effects of Europe's crisis. ...

Lookin' for trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... more negotiating to be done between now and 2013 - and a lotta fodder for speculation. Big trouble... but not in little China. At the annual US-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT), Chinese Vice-Premier Wang Qishan warned that, "The one ...