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AIA raises US$20.5bn in IPO

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2010
... gaining approximately 20 in the first two trading days following the listing. The Kuwaiti Investment Authority and CIC, China's sovereign wealth fund, were reported in overseas newspapers to be among the largest institutional investors that participated. ...

Future Fund adjusts long term asset allocation strategy

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
... that deleveraging would continue in coming years and that there will be rising wealth in emerging economies (most notably China) that will continue to heighten demand for resources and technologies. As a result, it has increased its long term equity ...

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... government will use part of higher-than-expected tax revenue to build foreign reserves as it attempts to weaken the currency. China's yuan declined by the most in 22 months after the central bank set the weakest reference rate for the currency since ...

Singapore makes $8.4bn grab for ASX

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
The Singapore stock exchange, SGX, has made an $8.4 billion bid for the ASX - a move that could see Australia's major exchange become a mere divisional office to Singapore's, if the deal receives regulatory approval. Australian Securities Exchange shareholders ...

G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... Easy for a deficit country like America to propose but no one at the table really expected trade surplus countries like China, Japan, Germany or host South Korea to agree to limit the trade flow that are putting food on their citizens' tables, do they? ...

Bottoms up

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... data from 83 countries, the correlation between GDP growth and stock returns is statistically non-existent. The example of China and the UK over the past 25 years illuminates the point. Despite breakneck economic growth averaging 10 per cent a year ...

Money, money, money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
... Management (AOFM) issues $1 billion of February 2011 Treasury Notes. Analysts are waiting on economic data due to be released in China at 1300 AEDT. In equities news, Ten Network Holdings Ltd releases annual results, and Wesfarmers Ltd releases first ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
The Australian share market was 1.3 per cent lower in intra-day trading, with offshore currency plays and China's surprise interest rate hike weighing on the market. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 63.6 points, or 1.37 per cent ...

Bad, bad day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... contract with seven Chinese ad resellers. According to reports these contracts represent 40 per cent of its overall revenue in China. And Microsoft? Financial markets saw looming trouble there too following the resignation of Ray Ozzie, MSFT's chief ...