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25 bps to win Melbourne Cup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
... needs to restore some semblance of normality into the system. Besides Australia's umbilical cord is now more attached to China - forecast to grow by 10 per cent plus next year - than America, which remains in strife. But the US - shrinking as it may ...

Too big to fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
... deficit of US$455,000,000,000. America would need a heck lot of financing to stay afloat and the rest of the world (hello China! Asian and Middle Eastern countries...hello) would need to be willing to send their surpluses America's way. While these surplus ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... 1.77 per cent, to 10,238.65. HONG KONG - Shares closed at their highest level in more than 14 months on strong data from China as well as Wall Street's overnight gains. The benchmark Hang Seng Index finished 112.6 points higher, or 0.51 per cent, at ...

Chinese Australians return to the East

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
... investor, as many yearn for bigger exposures to Asia, according to one specialist fund manager. Jonathan Wu from Premium China Funds Management, along with his veteran financial planner father Simon, first established the Premium China Fund in 2005 after ...

Carpe Diem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
... retail spending was actually up by 0.5 per cent - expectations were for a 0.2 per cent gain. You want more! There's more. China's exports fell by 15.2 per cent in the year to September - the smallest decline in almost a year and certainly better than ...

Challenger selects Five Oceans for Asian equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
Challenger Managed Investments has changed the investment manager of its Asian and China funds from Halbis Capital Management to Five Oceans Asset Management, resulting in a revised investment strategy. Challenger bought HSBC's asset management division ...

Doom dollar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
... computing their spending money in euros or in yens or in the Gulf Common Currency in the future. Or perhaps even in yuans. China after all is today's largest creditor nation to the US and is fast becoming a leading economic superpower. Just as the US ...

The shrinking big dollar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
... If the fall becomes disorderly...look out below! There may be some truth after all in the unsourced UK press report that China, Russia, the Gulf Arab States, and France convened a secret meeting to develop a multi-year plan to dump the US currency and ...

Herding 20 cats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... be shaped solely by a handful of rich industrial countries. And fittingly so particularly given the growing importance of China, India, Brazil and other developing and resource-rich nations in the global economy. It also highlights the declining grip ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
... venture with ING Group for $1.86 billion on Friday. ANZ also said on Monday it had opened its first rural branch in western China. In the US on Friday, shares fell for a third consecutive day, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipping or 0.44 per ...