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Seeking equilibrium

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
... since last September 2008 - following an increase to 14 in the previous month. This was backed up by the May jump in the Reuters/University of Michigan index of home-buying conditions to a level equal to the index's average level during the US housing ...

Easing Libor pains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... since last September - following an increase to 14 in the previous month. This is consistent with indications from the Reuters/University of Michigan index of home-buying conditions - released last week - which jumped to 161 in May from 146 in April. ...

Confusion in the inflection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... spread of 10 bps, it is moving in the right direction. These writings show that US consumer confidence is returning. The Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary consumer sentiment index increased to 67.9 in May from 65.1 in April. This is higher than ...

Too much ado about pig flu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... translate into 142.2 million? Even SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) of the early 2000s stopped after 800 deaths. Reuters too. It pointed to a 2008 study conducted by the IMF that predicted that an influenza pandemic could cost US$3 trillion and ...

Australian equities need more PR

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
... because Australian companies aren't doing enough to win overseas investments, based on the findings of a survey by Thomson Reuters. The survey is particularly helpful because it was conducted only three weeks ago and canvassed the opinions of US, European ...

Global debt volumes jump one-third

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... beginning to show signs of crowding out as government demand squeezes out private sector borrowers. According to Thomson Reuters debt market analysis, Asian sovereign debt grew 88 per cent while corporate bond issuance grew only 22 per cent. Asia's debt ...

AIG subsidiaries to separate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... happen at an AIA level, not at a regional level so again the impact of that for us locally can only be positive." Last week Reuters reported that Canada's Manulife, Singapore's Temasek and the UK's Prudential were all weighing up bids. Following the ...

Investors turn to ETFs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
... four times that amount or 42.1 per cent in the MSCI World Index," highlighted Seccombe. Based on data collated by Thomson Reuters, both institutional investors and advisers have increased their use of ETFs last year. During the first nine months of 2008 ...

IRESS eyes Asia

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... its current offering of data for Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. The additional data is being sourced from Thomson Reuters. The initial rollout will deliver five levels of market depth (bid and ask quotes), with trade and volume data, and news ...

Shariah-compliant hedge funds hit the spot

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
... traditional hedge fund counterparts this year, predicts Aureliano Gentilini, global head of hedge fund research at Thomson Reuters Lipper. Gentilini said that Shariah-compliant hedge funds stand to benefit from emerging trends in the investments industry ...