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Credit Suisse launches all-round fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2009
... Australian resources stocks such as Lihir Gold, Origin Energy and Rio Tinto and a 30 per cent allocation to the Hang Seng China Enterprise Index. The final option provides exposure to the S&P/ASX 200 index and includes a seven-year term. The firm actively ...

Martin Currie hires BDM for Asia

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2009
... institutional business development executive, Ee Fang Chen, as business development director for Asia. Ee Fang was responsible for China, Taiwan and Hong Kong institutional business development at Vanguard Investments and, prior to that, he worked at ...

Greenback weakness not all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2009
... restrictions, and here we go...currency devaluation. Perhaps this is also the reason why until now we haven't heard a squeak from China. Yes, the country making the loudest noise back in the days -- worried that its investments in US Treasuries would ...

Aussie dollar rises to restore equilibrium

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2009
... recession. Falling commodity prices. Falling interest rates. Risk aversion. End of the yen carry. Australian recession. China slowdown. Take your pick. This time, these rationales are turned on their heads and used to explain why the Aussie is headed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
... cent, to 10,187.11. HONG KONG - Hong Kong share prices closed 2.82 per cent higher Friday, tracking strong gains on mainland China's market. The benchmark Hang Seng Index finished 556.94 points up at 20,318.62. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
... 65.82 points to 10,214.64. HONG KONG - Hong Kong share prices closed 1.23 per cent higher, tracking strong gains on mainland China's market despite an overnight tumble on Wall Street. The benchmark Hang Seng Index finished 239.68 points higher at 19,761.68. ...

The Venus solution

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
... and that "It was a very beautiful place and it was really green." Maybe it was covered in greenbacks. Oh wait! Isn't that China?

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
... shares, although rises were limited by the yen's advance against the dollar and jitters ahead of US economic data. A rise in China's official purchasing managers' index (PMI) for August also provided support. But trade was very thin, with investors wary ...

Treading on treacherous territory

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
... remains debatable. Arguments for are as valid as those against. The point is this would contribute to a September pullback. China. Ahh yes, the economy that keeps on giving...its produce to the world...and its money to the US. Is this just a coincidence ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
... August with a dip as worries about the world economy reappear. Stocks finished lower on Monday after a 6.7 per cent plunge in China's main index spread fears that a slowdown in that country's economy could prolong recessions elsewhere. In the US, the ...