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Market dives on US downgrade, China demands new reserve currency

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... Treasury Bills, but 12 months later - voila! - their Bills are worth only 85 cents on the dollar in global purchasing power." China, the largest foreign holder of US bonds with US$1.16 trillion worth of Treasuries as of May, called for international ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... Overseas, the US Federal Reserve meets on Tuesday where it will consider new quantitative easing to boost the US economy. China will also release important inflation figures on Tuesday that will guide whether it raises interest rates. On Friday, Australian ...

Super funds hit back at anti-carbon tax groups

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... bigger then the Australia scheme." The IGCC said that emissions coverage and financial scale of climate change action by China, the European Union, the United States, Brazil and many other countries dwarfs that by Australia, in line with the relative ...

Gold, gold, gold, but not to Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... concerns over US Treasurys. This could trigger a race for the precious metal with growing numbers of wealthier people in China and India where holding wealth in gold is part of their culture, he said. Investors who don't understand these dynamics will ...

It's a deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... the current rationales that Uncle Sam will make good on his debt, there is no safer safe-haven than US Treasuries and/or China not even contemplating of selling down its massive holdings, America's bond market could be reacting to a more worrying development ...

Other play factors

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... higher, lower or steady also depending on the US, Europe and what happens to consumer spending in Australia. Need I mention China and the Australian dollar? Not on a single dated inflation number. And tell me, how 'stoopid' is extrapolating what happened ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... following an almost three per cent dive in the previous session on the back of the weekend's fatal high-speed rail crash in China. However, Mumbai fell 1.29 per cent after the Indian central bank announced a surprise 50 basis points rise in interest ...

Net-net, it's still good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... Wall Street jumps when earnings beat expectations. It trips when expectations whipped actuals. And of course, there's the China special feature where financial markets are still hanging onto the edge of their seats wondering whether it would continue ...

Australia ahead of pack in IT wealth spend

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... management industry's IT investment will reach $4.6 billion by 2015, an 8 per cent rise from the start of 2011. Unsurprisingly, China and India will lead the way with compound annual growth rates of 14% and 12.5% respectively, with Australia growing ...

Australia secures 30 TIEA partners

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... jurisdictions after securing partnerships with Costa Rica and the Special Administrative region of Macao, People's Republic of China. The agreements are formed to open the channels of communications between nations to prevent any offshore tax avoidance ...