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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
The Australian stock market has received mostly positive leads from offshore markets, with Wall Street finishing higher and precious and base metals prices firmer, although oil prices were weaker. At 0735 AEDT, on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2010
... been elevated growth levels in China. Hong Kong's Hang Seng gained 19.91 points, or 0.1 per cent, to 21,228.20, while South Korea's Kospi shed 0.3 per cent to 1,656.62. China's Shanghai benchmark added 0.1 per cent to 3,051.28 and India's Sensex was ...

Future Fund behind Azerbaijan on transparency

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
... one of the best examples of transparency in the world. The Future Fund scored nine out of a possible 10 along with South Korea's KIC, New Mexico's SWF and Wyoming's fund in the fourth quarter of 2009. A minimum rating of eight out of 10 is required to ...

Gold's dimming lustre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... Monetary Fund (IMF). Likewise, China is rumoured to be putting its hands up to buy the IMF's remaining 203 tonnes. South Korea, Brazil and even tiny Sri Lanka are reportedly also considering beefing up their holdings of the yellow metal. Explanation ...

December 25bps

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
... gold. No prizes for guessing who the biggest buyer of our exports was. And yes, it is China followed by Japan then South Korea and then India. Together these four countries alone take roughly 55 per cent of our exports. China accounts for more than 20 ...

The shrinking big dollar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
... rise, the US dollar's decline was 'temporarily' short-circuited by intervention from Asian central banks (again). South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and Hong Kong bought the greenback to avoid being 'beggared' - hurt their exports ...

Expect the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
... their favour. Money will keep coming for as long as necessary. Policy meetings in the UK, Canada, New Zealand and South Korea produced no changed in monetary policy last week. Echoing the G-20, the Bank of Canada and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand even ...

South Africa and Brazil take ESG lead

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
... investments. Brazil's oil giant Petrobras topped the list of individual company holdings followed by Samsung Electronics in South Korea, China Mobile and Taiwan Semiconductor. While Brazil and South Africa were identified for their good work on ESG ...

AIA arises from AIG

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... Australian re-branding follows similar initiatives in Brunei, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam although the changes are still subject to relevant regulatory approvals.

Threat of Lehmannisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
... markets posted gains last week led by the 3.8 per cent climb in Japan's Nikkei-225 index, followed by a 2.4 increase in South Korea's Kospi and then our very own All Ords - up 2.3 per cent. These compare with the meagre 0.4 per cent skip by the Dow ...