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Bonds, where the real money is

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... sector and onto the public sector balance sheet. Behind the US is Japan's $13 trillion bond market, with France, Italy and China each with about $3 trillion in bonds on issue. It's this pecking order that explains why, when S&P downgraded US bonds a ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... time. Financial stocks rallied. Bank of America surged 8.1 per cent after saying that it would sell half of its stake in China Construction Bank for about $8.3 billion, a move that will help BofA shore up its capital base and ease investor concerns about ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2011
... in the beleaguered banking giant. More rumours surfaced that the bank would sell part or all of its $17 billion stake in China Construction Bank to shore up its capital base. BofA shares rose 1.4 per cent to $7.76. Bond prices rose. The yield on the ...

Good news from bad stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
... have come back because of the good stories they've heard on cyberspace. The world is looking good. There was the story of China and how its manufacturing PMI (purchasing managers index) came in better-than-expected. There was a similar tale told about ...

AIA Australia creates Asia role, new CEO

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... is the largest pan-Asian life insurance group in the world with branches across Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Vietnam, New Zealand and Macau. It has total assets of US$115,782 million ...

In a better place

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... easily be seen in Australia's direction of trade. Based on ABS data, Australia's five biggest export markets are now in Asia: China accounted for 26.4% of the country's total exports in FY2010/11; Japan, 19.1%; South Korea, 9.2%; India, 6.4%; Taiwan ...

China demand for Australian resources to fall: JP Morgan

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... Australian resources was likely to fall, investment bank JP Morgan said yesterday. Jing Ulrich, chair of global markets, China, for JP Morgan, said China had to contend with imbalances in its economy in the medium to long term. Speaking at the CFA Institute ...

HSBC adds China region exposure to retail market

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... launched a new structured investment product to provide retail investors with capital protected exposure to equities in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The HSBC 100+ Series China Region Investment II is a five-year product, launched at the start of August ...

Fed move checks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... "risk currency debasement and inflation" and won't boost employment." Similarly, finance authorities of Germany, France, China, Brazil and most emerging markets criticised the Fed's November 2010 decision and even publicly called it "irresponsible". ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... had edged up slightly. The Shanghai Composite Index edged down 0.75 point to 2,526.07. Shanghai reversed its losses after China announced inflation had hit 6.5 per cent in July, a more than three-year high, amid hopes that the price rises had levelled ...