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Dealer groups stay with Japan, eye opportunities

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... be making any adjustments to its APLs, although it already had minimal exposure. "We take a fairly specific approach to country asset allocation and we maintain international exposure to strategic trusts, and that basically sits our current exposure ...

Unknown unknowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... construction - that's dotting the eastern and western coastlines (from Hokkaido in the north to Kyushu in the south) of the country. To date, explosions have been reported in four. The uncertainty is how many more would explode and the extent of the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... huge stock sell-off, with Japanese giants such as Sony and Toyota hit after they were forced to halt production in the country, while shares in nuclear plant operator TEPCO lost almost 25 per cent after Monday's near 24 per cent plunge. Tokyo slumped ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... not sustained damage such as a hole, judging from the fact that the radiation level has not jumped," a spokesman for the country's nuclear safety authority said. Mr Carr said the only significant piece of data released during the local domestic session ...

Game changer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... of the devastation from the quake/tsunami/nuclear explosion are still being counted. Aftershocks continue to rock the country, its nuclear facilities threaten to meltdown, potentially adding more to the number of casualties - people, property, businesses ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... Australian bourse managed to claw back some of its earlier losses after the Bank of Japan (BoJ) injected $181 billion into that country's money markets to keep the economy moving following the devastating tsunami triggered by a massive earthquake on ...

Japan bond jitters keep funds guessing

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... "It is likely that Japan will receive transfers from abroad, including the repatriation of investments held outside the country by Japanese residents, which could include US Treasury bonds," he said via email.

The day the earth moved

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... 25 centimetres and triggered a meltdown in Japan's nuclear reactors. It's another sad episode in this earthquake-prone country. But it is even sadder that prophets of doom are using the event to peddle their wares. They weren't able to get the spike ...

Oil central bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... surprise too in the yield on Portuguese two-year government bonds hitting their highest level -- 7.78 per cent - since the country joined the euro at last night's auction. Investors remain convinced that Portugal will eventually be forced to beg for ...

Perennial tactical move pays off

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
... as many advisers have been burnt by the overseas fixed interest exposure but also Australia will be a capital importing country for some time to come and our interest rates will be high compared to the rest of the world," said Thomas. Thomas said that ...