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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... Hong Kong and China fell over rising concerns about the European debt crisis and expectations of an interest rate hike by Beijing. Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index slid 1.17 per cent, or 257.85 points, to 21,695.26 points on turnover of HK$76.00 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... Electric Power. Optimism from figures suggesting the Chinese economy is not heading for a hard landing was tempered by Beijing's decision to almost immediately hike the amount of cash banks must keep in reserve, surprising traders. Hong Kong finished ...

Making the data fit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... Markets just ignored data showing that Chinese inflation rose to a 34-month high of 5.5 per cent in May. Not even when Beijing explicitly showed its displeasure at its seeming impotence to keep rising prices at bay. The PBOC immediately announced that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... forecasts, while Tokyo was also boosted by a central bank plan to extend a credit line to help Japan's post-quake economy. Beijing said consumer prices rose 5.5 per cent year-on-year in May, their fastest pace in almost three years, despite leaders' ...

Bigger picture, nicer picture

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2011

Convince me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011
... ignore the fact that at 52, the index signals continued expansion in Chinese manufacturing and that a slowdown is what Beijing (and you and your uncle) wants. The same goes for the US ISM manufacturing index. Believe! For the index has fallen sharply ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
... on Tuesday it planned to open two more branches in China after receiving final regulatory approval to open a branch in Beijing. At 1220 AEST, the spot price of gold in Sydney was $US1,538.90 per fine ounce, up $US3.42 from from Monday's local close of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... concerned over the Chinese economy after data this week suggested manufacturing was slowing, which follows several moves by Beijing to keep a lid on growth and inflation. In other markets, Singapore closed up 0.18 per cent, Taipei fell 0.34 per cent ...

Judgment Day bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... doomed! Just forget that this is exactly what every man and his dog were begging China to do. Just forget that this is what Beijing had been trying to engineer with the succession of increases in its banks' reserve requirement, investment and lending ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... 9,648.77. HONG KONG - Hong Kong stocks jumped 0.88 per cent as dealers shrugged off another round of monetary tightening from Beijing to pick up bargains following two days of losses. The benchmark Hang Seng Index rose 202.51 points to 23,276.27. Chinese ...