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China heading for recession?

A leading global economist who correctly predicted the collapse and the timing of the Asian credit bubble is boldly predicting that China is heading for an economic slowdown in the second half of next year. Andrew Hunt, principal of UK-based Andrew ...

In dividends we trust: AQR

... better earnings growth than a company that pays little or no dividends. He said in his paper, "In the heyday of the [tech] bubble, companies were particularly reticent to pay dividends. In fact paying dividends was in some ways a black mark. It said ...

China miracle more political than economic: Fidelity Summit

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2006
The China boom story is more a political miracle than an economic evolution, and that makes it even riskier than first imagined. The question of China was posed by Mercer's Tony Cole at the Fidelity Australian Equities Summit. The world has never seen ...

Navigator names its top five Aussies

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2006
... outperform their value counterparts and sub-styles had emerged in the value manager space for the first time since the tech bubble. "This time the stimulus has been the global growth theme and the commodity run, with deeper value managers choosing to ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2006
... dropped sharply after peaking about two weeks ago, as investors liquidated positions on the back of nervousness over a bubble in commodity markets, concerns that rising global interest rates may curb global demand, and aggressive profit-taking. While ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2006
... Standard & Poor's 500 had its biggest first-quarter gain since 1999 and the Nasdaq had its best quarter since the Internet bubble burst in 2000. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 41.38 points to 11,109.32. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index slipped ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2006
... five-year closing high, boosted by mining stocks as the copper price jumped, while takeover talk elsewhere continued to bubble. The FTSE 100 closed 14.5 points higher at 5965.1, edging closer to the 6,000 level which it has not crossed since March 2001. ...

Real estate risk: alert, not alarmed

... that there are many opportunities going forward and that their analysis suggests there is little danger of a real estate bubble being formed. "Based on our analysis, we believe the ingredient that would turn today's high commercial real estate prices ...

Canadian pensions get leg up from energy: RBC Dexia

... strength of the energy sector which gained 63.4 per cent over the same period. "That's three consecutive years, since the tech bubble in 2002, that longer-term assets have performed extremely well," said Don McDougall, director at RBC Dexia Investor ...

India is 30 per cent overvalued: Citigroup

The Indian market is suffering from too much of a good thing with huge foreign flow of funds into the country making it too expensive to invest in their equities, according to Citigroup. Ratnesh Kumar, head of India Research at Citigroup, said that ...