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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2007
... board. The Nikkei declined 386.33 points, or 2.48 per cent, to 15,197.09. HONG KONG - Blue chips sank 3.88 per cent and China plays tumbled close to 6 per cent in a broad sell-off as investors feared more fallout from the credit crisis, dragging the ...

Killer inflation - three fatalities

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
While the RBA flags the dangers of growing consumer spending on our rising inflation, China's rocketing inflation and consumer demand have proved to be a killer. Literally. Australia's employment growth was softer than expected in October, however Westpac's ...

China acts on climate change

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
... fund as part of its strategy to foster and finance projects for climate change. Inline with its Kyoto Protocol obligations, China's CDM fund was launched last week and will use revenue from the country's carbon trading to invest in climate change projects. ...

S&P launch three new Shariah indices

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
... US$2.1 trillion. The S&P/IFCI Large-MidCap Shariah index focuses on emerging markets, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Russia ...

Hunter Hall turns deep green

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
... people, animals and the environment" by using a highly exclusive range of filters that eliminates countries like Japan, China, South Korea and Russia. The fund, called the Deep Green Fund, will not invest in any company domiciled in any whaling nations ...

Asian property under the microscope: AEW

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
... equities investment." Singapore shifting its focus to high-value manufactures, its proximity to being able to feed off the China growth engine and its ability to support a modern real estate market makes it, together with Hong Kong, a central plank in ...

Sub-prime chewing up financials

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
... While the sub-prime mortgage monster continues gnawing away at financial stocks, oil is boiling towards $100 a barrel and China is snatching wads of its foreign cash reserves away from the green back. The US financial sector is still suffering a sub-prime-mauling ...

Emerging markets a safe bet: Mobius

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2007
... warned against environmental issues, the inequalities between the rich and poor, especially in markets such as Brazil and China, and some overpricing in the markets. "Take for example, India. The current P/E is 25.3x compared to 11.6x at end-1998. China ...

Markets shake rattle and roll

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2007
... difference, cushioned the blows somewhat. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index posted its biggest one-day point loss after reports China's Premier Wen Jaibao decided to delay the domestic institutional investor (DDI) scheme. Back in August when China's State ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2007
... KONG - Hong Kong stocks dived, with blue chips recording their greatest decline since September 2001. It was triggered by China's Premier raising uncertainties about the near-term launch of the "through train" scheme allowing mainland Chinese to invest ...