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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... Greek merger between Alpha Bank and Eurobank, with a sizable Qatari investment, offering some rare good news that the country was tackling the problem of its strained banking system. HONG KONG - Hong Kong shares ended 1.71 per cent higher after a rally ...

ASIC tightens advice advertising

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... buying," Medcraft said. "When you think about the Australian financial system with the superannuation system, everyone in the country is responsible for their own investment decision so it is important they are able to make the right decisions." Medcraft ...

Bonds, where the real money is

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... Blossom nation tries out its sixth prime minister in just six years. The next layer in the global bond market maze is which country owns the debt each country is issuing. For example, China owns about 26% of the bonds issued by US government, followed ...

Moody's does an S&P

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2011
... of Japanese government debt is funded internally (93% according to Forbes.com). Moody's admitted as much. It gave the country a stable outlook because of the "undiminished home bias of Japanese investors and their preference for government bonds, which ...

CBD vacancies hit 2-year low

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
... than 8.0 percent." says Property Council chief executive officer, Peter Verwer. But the results aren't uniform across the country. "Australia's largest CBD market, Sydney, is not enjoying the same success. This market has been weak since the GFC, and ...

A penny saved could spark a recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... investments and no jobs. This takes us back to what has become the all-important metric of the times, the gauge by which a country's fiscal management abilities are judged - the debt to GDP ratio. Many nations all over the globe - and credit rating agencies ...

In a better place

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... of trade. Based on ABS data, Australia's five biggest export markets are now in Asia: China accounted for 26.4% of the country's total exports in FY2010/11; Japan, 19.1%; South Korea, 9.2%; India, 6.4%; Taiwan, 3.7%. During the past fiscal year, the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... President Nicolas Sarkozy promised new measures to slash France's public deficit amid fears that France could be the next country after the United States to suffer a top credit-rating downgrade. "There's certainly going to be negative sentiment and we're ...

UniSuper nominates Bloomberg as asset manager

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... (AIM) initiative. Since that time, the asset allocation to AIM has increased to $4-5 billion. Amanda Dobbie, Bloomberg's country manager, Australia and New Zealand told Financial Standard that AIM had received a lot of interest from other super funds ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... televised speech to defend Washington's credit-worthiness and declare that the United States "always will be a triple-A country". Traders worried that the downgrade would hit the bond markets, but instead Treasury prices rallied strongly. The yield on ...