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Modi under the spotlight

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... 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 Life's Investment outlook for the region is flat: "If you take China into account, we ...

Volcker Alliance proposes new US regulator system

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... and prudential supervisory functions currently performed by the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Crucially, in its report the Volcker Alliance has called for the SEC and CFTC to be merged ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... stocks. Both the S&P/ASX200 and All Ordinaries are up around one per cent as optimism about a possible turnaround for commodities offsets a lacklustre lead from overseas. CMC Markets chief market strategist Michael McCarthy said indications the People's ...

Mining capex in a hole

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... rate rise since 2006. The firm says the central banks of Europe and Japan are pushing the monetary accelerator while commodities exporters such as Canada and Australia are cutting rates to cushion the fall for their slowing economies.

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... sharemarket is posting gains on the back of positive offshore leads, China's new stimulus package and rises in some commodities prices. However it gave up some of the morning's gains, going from 0.9 per cent to 0.6 per cent higher after the release of ...

Now for Australia's debt surge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... of our number one export, iron ore and weak/weakening growth in most major economies are taking down prices of most commodities. This is a major no-no for a resource-based economy like Australia. Needless to say, manufacturing production had been in ...

China's trade trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... the China's economy tracked in the first quarter. China's in trouble now. 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 ...

China slowdown will hit Australia

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... Australia's growth pace had deteriorated sharply since the first quarter of 2014 as declining prices for key export commodities depressed mining investment and weakened the Australian dollar. It predicted that a further slowdown in China, Australia's ...

Sovereign wealth funds growing despite falling commodity prices

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... according to research by Preqin. This is significant, Preqin argues, because many sovereign wealth funds rely on oil and commodities for funding. Instead, institutions have turned to funding from governments, reserves, investment returns and alternative ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
... lowest price since tracking began in 2008. The market opened with only modest losses, but had fallen further by noon. Commodities were looking very weak and the release of China's latest monthly manufacturing data would be closely watched on Wednesday ...