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The art of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
... you've read on this space yesterday, "experts" were falling all over themselves - and then some - euphorically welcoming China's revaluation of its currency. Yes, Virginia if you were watching the news yesterday, flipping through the dailies or clicking ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
... cent, at 4,632.7 points. NEW YORK - US stocks closed lower on Monday after investors lost some of their enthusiasm about China's decision to let its currency appreciate against the US dollar. The initial reaction to China's weekend announcement was that ...

A stitch in time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
... currency revaluation is coming! It's good news for financial markets. Positive speculation abound after the People's Bank of China (PBOC) posted the "Further Reform the RMB Exchange Rate Regime and Enhance the RMB Exchange Rate Flexibility" statement ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
... Kong dollars ($A8.21 billion). SHANGHAI - Shanghai closed lower due to liquidity concerns ahead of Agricultural Bank of China's planned blockbuster initial public offering. The Shanghai Composite Index, which covers both A and B shares, ended down 47.02 ...

China proves resilience

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2010
... European markets may have come to a grinding halt due to sovereign debt fears in the region but the latest round of earnings in China show yet again the compelling diversification properties of Asian investments in a typical investor portfolio. Martha ...

Going nowhere fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
... easing versus the Bank of Canada and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's interest rate hikes; speculation of a slowdown in China and the Chinese property market is in a bubble versus not in a bubble; emerging economies will succumb to the European crisis ...

Toot those Vuvuzelas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
... Hong Kong shares ended flat as a late sell-off erased earlier gains. Renewed concerns about eurozone debt offset gains in China-related banks ahead of Agricultural Bank of China's initial public offering. Moody's Investors Service late Monday cut Greece's ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... figures improved out of sight, and we've forgotten about the resources super profit tax for the morning." Higher exports from China and lower US jobless claims helped relieve nervousness on Wall Street, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average index closing ...

Mood change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... appreciation - net exports would also be a drag on the second quarter economy. Where's the positive in that? Ahhh...but China continues to grow. Yes, and this space had been trying to hammer that in for a long, long while now. I've always subscribed ...