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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
... Queensland. Shares in Treasury Wine Estate have fallen back after big gains on Monday on reports of a possible takeover bid from China. Treasury Wine shares were down eight cents, or 2.18 per cent, at $3.59. National turnover was 924.3 million shares ...

China-Gillard tug o' war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
... carbon and resources tax. All of which have sent both business and consumer confidence sliding in recent months. If not for China and its voracious appetite for Australia's resources exports, the domestic equity market's 2010/11 fiscal year performance ...

Aust foreign finance subsidiaries worth $71b

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... of foreign sales, 26% due New Zealand, 25% due the UK and 21% the US. Asian financial hub powerhouses such as Hong Kong, China, Singapore and Japan make up just 14%. This country business distribution is however very different to where the profits are ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... Wednesday and Thursday. They said early trade on Friday was tentative, however, after subdued manufacturing data in Britain, China and the eurozone but it then picked up after US figures surprised on the upside, sending Wall Street sharply higher. In ...

Sunny side up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... survey shows large manufacturers planning to increase capital spending and hiring - and higher profits - going forward. On China, reports that its PMI slipped to 50.9 in June from 52.0 in May gave market another case of the jitters. But this should be ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... Aussie dollar was a "little softer" following the release of weaker than expected Chinese manufacturing activity for June. China's official purchasing managers' index (PMI), a gauge of manufacturing activity, fell for the third straight month in June. ...

New index rates sovereign debt issuers

BLACKROCK RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... rated countries. "This is partly due to the good fortune of being highly leveraged to the Asian economies, particularly China," he said. "As a result our economy has performed relatively well and didn't incur serious public debt like the core developed ...

AllianceBernstein bullish on molecular medicine

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... macro economic overlay to its process. Other themes in the portfolio are Web2.0, the emerging middle class particularly in China, heightened cyclicality, financial reformation and the largest of all, energy transformation. AllianceBernstein is betting ...

Former UBS star team launches flagship Bennelong Avoca fund

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... concentration rules and tracking error limits. Campbell said the weakness of the US economy and the rise of inflation in China was a concern, especially with China being the engine of growth in Australia. "We see commodity prices at stretched levels ...

IMF elects new chair

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011