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Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
... as investors went bargain-hunting, analysts said. Japan's Nikkei 225 climbed 0.9 per cent to close at 8876.59 after the country posted better-than-expected growth figures for the first quarter. South Korea's Kospi added 0.3 per cent to 1845.24. Benchmarks ...

That anxious wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
... Lehman Brothers in 2008" because "an escalation of the [European] crisis would spare no one. Developed and developing country growth rates could fall by as much or more than in 2008-09." I can also hear IMF head honcha, Christine Lagarde, going gloat ...

Grexit and the games people play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
It is ironic that the country that brought the world the story of the "Sword of Damocles" is itself now that very sword dangling precariously above the heads of world financial markets. Any moment now. Events in Greece over the past few days have jacked ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
... points. NEW YORK - US stocks have sunk as speculation about Greece's potential exit from the eurozone continues after the country's political parties failed to forge a government. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 63.35 points, or 0.50 per ...

Optimistic outlook for industry growth: Research

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... coming from families and the self employed. The AIA Australia Adviser Partnership Survey of 1100 advisers from around the country asked where advisers expected to see growth in 2012, how far advanced their practices were in responding to FOFA and to ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2012
... confirmed that Greece would get the next installment of bailout funds this week. Early worries that the EU would deny the country its scheduled 5.2 billion euros ($A6.72 billion) payout sent stocks tumbling more than one per cent, but later officials ...

China needs active management: Fidelity

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
... attempt to diversify wealth involves a shift from the perception of China as the 'world's factory,' explained Yeung, as the country tries to deal with issues such as food needs against overfarmed land and an ageing rural population. Wages will rise ...

You beauty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
... myself. Pity 'cause there I was on Budget night waiting, waiting. Waiting for him to prove me right, that tightening the country's purse strings too much too soon cannot be anything but contractionary. Boy, I was so very wrong. I was wrong because what ...

Fearing the unknown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
... that Europe remains a major risk. That there'll be violent market reactions - up or down - whenever a Eurozone member country goes to the market for refunding, and the elections in France and Greece would produce an extra layer of uncertainty with regards ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
... plunged 6.67 per cent after mainstream parties fell short of a governing majority, putting hard-won agreements to save the country's economy and eurozone membership back into question. HONG KONG - Asian markets and the euro slumped after voters in France ...