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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... a bomb to financial markets," Dow Jones Newswires reported. Investors were also jittery after Beijing said Tuesday that China's official purchasing managers' index dropped to 50.4 in October from 51.2 in September, suggesting the global economy's main ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011
... bailout program, sending global markets into a tailspin. Sentiment also was hit by disappointing manufacturing data for China, the global economy's growth engine. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 297.05 points (2.48 per cent) to finish ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
... Australian share market fell almost 1.5 per cent by noon after the release of softer than expected manufacturing figures from China. It came after US stocks plunged on Monday amid renewed worries about the eurozone debt crisis, which claimed its first ...

2012 China study tour launched

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011
Premium China Funds Management has launched its China Study Tour for 2012, offering a unique insight into the culture and business opportunities offered by Australia's number one trading partner. Austrade has seen around 1500 companies increasing its ...

Fixville here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011
... tap the IMF and/or sovereign wealth funds and/or the BRICs. French head Sarkozy is reportedly already in negotiations with China - the country with loose change to spare - to drop some coins into the EFSF kitty. Now comes the hard part - implementation. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2011
... higher, with most reversing earlier losses as markets await a key eurozone debt crisis summit while hopes were raised that China could loosen its economic policy. Sydney added 0.35 per cent, or 14.6 points, to end at 4,242.5 and Seoul ended 0.30 per ...

Asia growth to transform business

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
Australian investors need to move on from just talking about China and India's economic rise and start gaming out what it specifically means for their portfolios and what the business threats and opportunities will be. Dr Anil K. Gupta, an emerging ...

Party in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... contraction in two years while France's service sector plummeted to 46.8 from 50.2 last month. Fortunately for us antipodes, China's latest PMI reading debunked views of a hard landing. HSBC's flash PMI index rose to 51.1 - the highest in five months ...

Market Report- Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... backlog at an all-time high. Adding to the upbeat Wall Street sentiment was an HSBC report on manufacturing activity in China, showing it hit a five-month high in October in the world's second-largest economy. Bond prices fell. The yield on the 10-year ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2011
... cent, to $63.18, while BHP Billiton had fallen 80 cents, or 2.2 per cent, to $35.60. Earlier this week reports emerged that China's steel makers were demanding lower iron ore prices and Brazilian mining giant Vale had accepted price cuts. Woodside Petroleum ...