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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
The Australian market looks set to open a touch lower, as gains on Wall Street offset losses in the local market on Thursday. At 0648 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down two points at 5,615. US stocks have pushed higher ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower after US stocks lost ground overnight. At 0651 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was down 24 points at 5,631. Wall Street fell for a second straight session following disappointing ...

Modi under the spotlight

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... links with the US Federal Reserve are sending deflationary winds to the region. Lawson noted that countries such as India or Korea should benefit from the fall in oil prices because they are both importers of commodities. But he said that, overall, Standard ...

IMF predicts drop in foreign earnings

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... categories of the consumer basket. However, in economies in which output gaps are currently negative (Australia, Japan, Korea, Thailand), policymakers may need to act to prevent a persistent decline in inflation expectations," the IMF outlook said. The ...

China's trade trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... Australia's in trouble too and Asia and commodities and commodity exporting countries and China's main trading partners - South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, US, Australia, Germany. Not so according to the IMF's Asia and Pacific Department division chief, Steven ...

Australia missing out on $34.5bn tech opportunity

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... creating and exploiting digital markets. Only 2.3% of retail sales are online, compared to 10% in the UK and 13% in South Korea. The country's enterprises are inconsistent in their application of digital technologies to drive efficiencies. While Australia ...

China millennials dictate future of emerging-market investment

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
The rise of affluent Chinese "millennials" is driving changes in the emerging-market investment space, according to AB. China has an estimated 300 million people born between 1980 and 2000, and this generation is distinct from those previous in that ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... sell-off. Sydney shares were given a lift by data showing Australia's unemployment rate had eased slightly, while South Korea became the latest country to cut interest rates as it struggles to fight off deflation. Tokyo rallied 1.43 per cent, or 267.59 ...

It might just be a matter of time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... this year..." on 5 February....and then, there were 24 with the addition of the central banks of Poland, Thailand and South Korea since - and this doesn't track those that have already double-dipped like the People's Bank of China (PBOC) and the Reserve ...

HLB Mann Judd launches Asia-focused business

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... management, migration and wealth management, and taxation, compliance and audit. The company has also appointed a head of Korea practice to focus on opportunities HLB Mann Judd is already developing in South Korea. "Our aim is to be a one-stop-shop for ...