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Diamond in the region

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... cliff-watching the latest development on the cliff-hanger that is the fiscal cliff. Investors even ignored the large upgrade in US third quarter GDP. Perhaps because it was both good - revised to 2.7% annualised growth from 2.0% (which means a stronger ...

Coming in 2014: Aussie recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... cent GDP growth. US dollar has not passed 6.39 yuan so far this year... China GDP growth slows to 7.4% year-on-year in the third quarter. 9 Baltic Dry Index rises 100 per cent. Baltic Dry Index FALLS by 41.2% from 20 December 2011 to last night. 10 Wheat ...

Sweeet!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... Greek debt will take losses of 53.5 percent on the nominal value of their bonds". Sweet! Greece has reduced its repayments. Third time fail gets an even sweeter deal for the Greeks. The interest rate Greece has to pay for its bailout loans is reduced ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... January 23, 2009. WELLINGTON - The NZX 50 Index fell 2.41 points, or 0.1 per cent, to 4009.60, holding above 4000 for a third session.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
... slid 0.49 percent, or 9.92 points, to finish at 2,017.46. Eurozone finance ministers were to meet later Monday for their third effort to agree on unlocking a 31.2 billion euros ($A39 billion) slice of aid for Greece as it teeters on the verge of bankruptcy ...

TAL crowned life company of the year

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
... industry changes and business development." TAL's achievement breaks a three-year winning streak by Asteron, who finished third this year behind Macquarie. AIA and Zurich placed fourth and fifth respectively. CoreData's research has revealed that Australia's ...

CBUS investments in CMFEU sights

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
... CBUS is highly rated by most super fund research groups and its investment performance has been consistently in the top third of all funds over all medium to long term time frames. CBUS chairman, Victoria's former premier Steve Bracks, and fund chief ...

Thank you, xie xie, arigato

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012

Planners ignore EMs when advising clients

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
... choice for retail investors, and it's something that we are looking at in the product team," said Jessica Jones, head of third party distribution at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. "We wanted to do this survey to see what progress needed to be made," ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
... to avert a "fiscal cliff" that would tip the world's biggest economy back into recession. The Nikkei in Tokyo enjoyed a third straight rally due to the yen's weakness after the front-runner to become Japan's next prime minister said he would push for ...