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Energy field nationalism to impact investors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2006
... companies (IOCs). They will tilt the playing field in favour of less profit-driven national oil companies from countries like China, India and Malaysia. This will leave IOCs operating in countries like Angola facing the prospect that their production ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2006
... May 11. HONG KONG - Hong Kong blue-chip stocks rose 1.07 per cent, tracking strong Asian markets, with telecoms firms like China Mobile rebounding, while mainland companies surged on A-share issue plans. The benchmark Hang Seng index ended up 201.21 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
... US experience where the savings rates of consumers have become increasingly negative for some time. The trade surplus for China has increased by about 80 per cent this year to about $US180 billion and the country now has the largest foreign reserves ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
... highest close since October 27. HONG KONG - Stocks rose 0.99 per cent after key US data showed a healthy job market, while China Mobile led a rally in telecoms on hopes that Beijing is close to granting 3G licences, offseting losses in HSBC. The Hang ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2006
... per cent had problems finding graduates in mathematics, statistics and science. Today Australia will continue talks with China on removing foreign equity restrictions on the legal, banking, insurance and education professions as part of ongoing free-trade ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2006
... caution ahead of key US jobs data, as exporter Li & Fung fell 3.2 per cent due to disappointing sales estimates in the US and China Mobile weighed. The benchmark Hang Seng index fell 103 points to close at 18,739.99. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket ...

GoldLink launches commodities index fund

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2006
... investments. "Commodities have been booming because demand for raw materials and metals from accelerating economies, such as China and India, have simply outstripped supply," GoldLink executive chairman, Richard Kovacs, said. "It has been hard for Australian ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2006
... in the production of many high tech goods such as those in the telecoms and IT industries having been ranked 6th in 2000. China's economy has gone from being the 10th largest in 1991 to the 4th largest today over which time the GDP per capita has more ...

T.Rowe Price wins Chinese govt fund mandate

... Price Global Investment Services has won a US equity mandate from the National Council for Social Security Fund (SSF) of China, one of only 10 non-Chinese investment managers selected by the US$25 billion-plus pension fund. The SSF, similar to Australia's ...

More global, more professional: FPSB

... they have already started testing their procedures by putting through a select group of planner organisations in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong through a 40-hour conversion program. The 'conversion' means planners from these countries would have ...