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Positive contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... chances..." -Olivia Newton John Yes, Olivia (sorry Virginia) suddenly the 'jitters of January' appears to have suddenly went puff. China? Greece and the rest of the PIGS - Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain? Budget deficits? Joblessness? All because of ...

No pleasing Mr. Market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... take a walk back our short-term memory lane. At the start of the week, investors and speculators alike were worried about China, State of the Union, Bernanke and US GDP. What were the results? China's 'fine-tuning' (again, yes fine-tuning) of its economy ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... debt-ridden economies in Greece and several other eurozone members as well as the prospect of tighter credit conditions in China. In London, the FTSE 100 index of leading shares added 42.78 points, or 0.83 per cent to end the week at 5,188.52 points ...

HSBC Bank hires Contango director

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... and Shanghai Banking Corporation based in Hong Kong. He is currently deputy chair and non-executive director at HSBC Bank (China) and chair and non-executive director of HSBC's seven rural banks in mainland China. These appointments replace Kerrie Kelly ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
... heavy falls overnight. "Tomorrow is the GDP numbers for the US market, so it's probably a little bit tentative given that China is working very hard to keep its economy at a steady pace, and that is affecting a bit of cautionary thinking here," Ms Chan ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
... the Australian market closed sharply in the red after a broad-based sell-off sparked by concerns about economic worries in China and the United States. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index lost 73.3 points, or 1.55 per cent, at 4,644.6 points, while the broader ...

Five Oceans gains China and India fund mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
... Five Oceans Asset Management has been selected by financial planning group Garnaut Private Client Advisers to manage its China and India investment fund. Ross Youngman, chief executive at Five Oceans Asset Management, said Garnaut Private Clients had ...

Wall Street v Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
... Wall Street had been on edged ever since Obama and the Democrats met their Waterloo in Massachusetts. Sure, there's also China - and it's fine tuning (yes, fine-tuning, not tightening) and there are the PIGIS' (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Italy, Spain) ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
... in the US. In London, pharmaceutical shares led the way, while mining companies lost ground on fears of lower demand from China. Bank shares also fell after President Barack Obama's pledge last week to crack down on the US banking sector. London's FTSE ...

Now that's challenging

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
... spending and start returning their fiscal accounts into balance. We thought...we thought... We had an inkling that it could be China. After all, alarm bells were ringing as early as the fourth quarter of last year about Beijing overheating. Then again ...