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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... agreement late Friday to avoid a federal government shutdown in the world's biggest economy. Shanghai edged up a day after China posted its first quarterly trade deficit in seven years as rising commodity prices pushed manufacturers' costs higher. China ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... Chinese stocks closed higher on Friday shares rose on Friday thanks to large fund flows into the Hong Kong amid hopes that China was close to finishing its tightening cycle. The benchmark Hang Seng Index rose 114.27 points, or 0.47 per cent, to 24,396.07 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... seven months as it tries to staunch rising prices. However, although the move was expected the timing took some by surprise, China's markets were closed on Monday and Tuesday for public holidays. Hong Kong markets were closed on Tuesday for a public ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... reach an agreement on federal spending levels. Stocks had edged lower in early trading, following most world markets, after China raised a key lending rate and the rating agency Moody's lowered Portugal's credit rating. A survey from the Institute for ...

RBA worries not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... be limited." Read again. Yes, there's no reference to the Queen - Queen Qaddafi that is. No MENA. No Europe and not even China where its central bank just announced the fourth interest rate hike in less than six months. The PBOC lifted the benchmark ...

The other emerging market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... developed economies. Yes Virginia, bring up the subject of emerging markets and in all probability you'll be hearing discussions China... or India... or the BRIC economies... or Asia. Too, cyberspace commentaries are littered with the pros and cons of ...

Hunter Hall defiant on Japan

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
Boutique fund manager Hunter Hall increases Japan exposure while maintaining its focus on handpicked assets in China and less fancied ASEAN markets. Hunter Hall Chief Executive officer David Buckland said that the fund's Asian Value Trust, launched ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... takeover offer for Equinox. Shares in Abra Mining jumped nine cents, or 30 per cent, to 39 cents after its largest shareholder, China's biggest integrated producer of nonferrous metals, offered to mop up shares in the junior minerals explorer that it ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... appeared to be making some progress in stabilising the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. A pick-up in manufacturing activity in China in March after a fall in February added to the positive tone, suggesting Beijing's tighter policy on inflation was not ...

Goldi-jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... number of factors that could have easily spooked investors into hiding -- - the Middle East and North Africa, Japan, Europe, China - but no, standing in the way of the running of the bulls on Wall Street was what investors dreaded more. And speaking ...