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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
... 130.88 points at 12,656.42. HONG KONG - Hong Kong stocks rose, buoyed by property plays, but trade was volatile as a slide in China's main stock index in Shanghai and $US19 billion ($A20.83 billion) in new writedowns for Swiss bank UBS rattled investors. ...

China response has big trade implications

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
With pressures growing on Prime Minister Rudd to scold China over its treatment of Tibet, the irony is that its left to just to the Prime Minister to defend our position even though the beneficiaries of our China relationship extend into every corner ...

Vietnam the next LPT hotspot

... listings on the Singapore Exchange...and its success is also encouraging a number of Asian countries, including India and China, to explore creating their own domestic REIT regulations and markets." Meanwhile, Vietnam is the country to watch after it ...

Climate change rhetoric unsustainable

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
... which has the most signatories to the UN principles for responsible investing and we regularly tell countries like the US, China and India to follow our climate change policy lead. But when it comes to practical responses to sustainability our interest ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
... Monday. HONG KONG - Stocks gained more than 2 per cent as the Federal Reserve's hefty rate cut sparked widespread buying, with China Mobile leading blue chips, buoyed by its forecast-beating earnings. The Hang Seng Index closed up 2.26 per cent, or 482.33 ...

Baring Asia pumps $95m in green fuel

... Green energy is the new black in private equity after Baring Asia injected $95 million into an energy investment company in China, home to the third largest reservoir of coalbed methane, an alternative fuel source. Baring Private Equity Asia, which boasts ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
... cents, or 1.4 per cent, to $19.71 and Westpac slumped 32 cents, or 1.52 per cent to $20.70. Mr Klusman also said fears about China's economy, as inflation there accelerates, had prompted investors to sell mining shares including BHP Billiton and Rio ...

EMs too fast, too furious for sub-prime

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... to open as human rights issues and un-democratic political governance models still present stumbling blocks. EMs such as China and India have made headways in regards to "environmental correction". Several countries have adopted environmentally sustainable ...

Stagflation cross-winds

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
... research, the key reason why inflation is on the up, despite the downturn in the OECD developed economies, led by the USA, is China. Incidentally, prices for imports from China jumped 0.8 per cent in January, the largest monthly increase since the Labor ...

We knew it all along: Treasury

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
... especially in the so-called 'new economy' of the United States; second, an increasingly talked about rapid industrialisation of China; and third, a barely recognised boost to labour force participation in many industrialised countries (not including ...