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No-bull bull market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... which advanced 1 percent... The MSCI Emerging Markets Index gained 1 percent, its fifth advance. Benchmark stock indexes in Russia and South Africa jumped at least 1.4 percent." What do these tell us, Sisyphus? These confirm that equities are in a bull ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... record highs that we saw yesterday." Earlier in the day, the Security Council voted 10-0, with five abstentions including Russia and China, to authorise "all necessary measures" to protect civilians from attacks by Muammar Gaddafi's forces. The Australian ...

More to emerging markets than Asia

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... frequently ignored in favour of increasingly crowded Asian markets. "What you see in our GEM fund is an overweight on Africa and Russia because that's really where we find those opportunities. Companies with good track record, strong cash flow generation ...

Desert storm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... Top World Oil Consumers (2009) 1. United States 18.8 million barrels per day 2. China 8.3 3. Japan 4.4 4. India 3.1 5. Russia 2.7 6. Brazil 2.5 7. Germany 2.4 8. Saudi Arabia 2.4 9. Korea, South 2.2 10. Canada 2.2 11. Mexico 2.1 12. France 1.8 13. Iran ...

Hitting a BRIC wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... come as equity markets in the developed economies are starting to outperform those in the fast-growing BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India and China. Bloomberg reports that the MSCI World Index - the benchmark measure for developed equity markets' performance ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
... found no fault with electronic systems blamed for acceleration problems, and reports emerged of a planned joint venture in Russia's Far East. China's latest move to rein in inflation with an interest rate rise on Tuesday continued to worry Hong Kong ...

ECB to QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... a crisis everywhere else around the globe. But we've seen this all before. It happened in Latin America, it happened in Russia, it happened in Asia. Guess what? We're still here! If they - them that don't have the wherewithal to print money - survived ...

China, Russia dump USD for bilateral trade

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
China and Russia will cease using the US dollar as the basis of their intercountry trade in reaction to the greenback's instability and sliding relevance. "About trade settlement, we have decided to use our own currencies," Russian president Vladimir ...

Fearing September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
Summer has ended - in the Northern Hemisphere that is. But the uncertainty that has befallen Wall Street through the sunny season has not gone away - nor does it look like going anywhere anytime soon. Wall Street may have produced a positive performance ...

Food security back on the radar

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... billion hostile bid for Potash Corp, a bid Potash later deemed as "grossly inadequate", while other news in this area see Russia now banning any wheat exports, a Chinese firm securing the rights to 2.8 million hectares of the Congo for palm oil production ...