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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
... lower at 20,128.99. Turnover was 55.55 billion Hong Kong dollars ($A8.43 billion). SHANGHAI - Chinese shares fell for a sixth day Wednesday amid weak investor confidence following Wall Street's overnight decline. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index ...

Liquidnet taps NZ market

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
... equities markets around the world, with New Zealand and Mexico the most recent markets to launch. New Zealand will become the sixth market accessible in the Asia-Pacific region, joining Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Singapore. During the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
... commodities such as oil, gold, silver and copper also finished firmer during offshore trade. The All Ordinaries had its sixth successive rise. The big miners pushed the index higher. BHP Billiton, Australia's biggest stock, rose 71 cents, or 1.8 per ...

All that glitters are gold ETFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2010
... world. Nigel Phelan, head of sales in Australia and New Zealand at ETF Securities, said the gold ETF structure equates to the sixth largest central bank in the world, all of which are backed by gold bullion bars. The ETF was around the 18th largest gold ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... reported another rise in US consumer spending and data pointed to a further economic recovery. Consumer spending rose for the sixth consecutive month in March, up 0.6 per cent and in line with expectations. The report was tempered slightly by news that ...

Bad news on Good Friday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
... really that bad? Other days, the financial press would have focused on the observation that the March reading marks the sixth consecutive month that the index has been above the 50 expansion/contraction mark. It might have expanded less in March, but ...

RBC Dexia wins Aii custody mandate

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... has won in recent years, including being ranked number one overall in the Global Investor Global Custody Survey for the sixth consecutive year (2004-2009). It was also named Global Custody: Client Relationship Manager of the Year in ICFA's 2009 Global ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... rates. The Dow, up around 17 points in late afternoon trade, ended up 43.83 points, or 0.41 per cent, at 10,685.98. It's the sixth straight increase for the Dow. The Standard & Poor's 500 index settled up up 8.95 points, or 0.78 per cent, at 1,159.46 ...

While we wait for payrolls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
... the biggest since October 1973. More good news for Japan. Household spending increased by 1.7 per cent in January - the sixth straight month of increases. And our other neighbours? The Indian government expects its economy to grow by 9 per cent in fiscal ...

Public policy to reshape investment risk: PIMCO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... factors: equity risk, credit risk, inflation risk factor, liquidity risk and time frame," he said. "Today, we have to include a sixth one - the public policy risk factor. When you have governments entering markets as non-commercial players, it's like ...