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Bulls take first quarter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... consumer prices. The same goes with other emerging markets. There will be a Jasmine Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa. While it will lead to the peaceful ousting of the presidents of Tunisia and Egypt, Libyan strongman Qaddafi would fight ...

Capital at risk in emerging markets

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... and parts of Asia as well," he said. "It comes as a shock to observers who are thinking it's stable." Large swathes of Africa and parts of Asia and Latin America have more than 30 per cent of the population aged under 15 years, according to a slide in ...

We shall overcome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... radioactive water has halted repair work and plutonium has been found in the soil." Tensions in the Middle East and North Africa lingers while NATO's doing a tour of Libya, bombing the bejeesus out of Qaddafi and his supporters. The European debt crisis ...

Commodities rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
C'mon commodities! Just like equity markets, commodities have been knocked down by the recent increase in volatility but have just as quickly recovered. Commodity prices largely depend on rising demand - or more accurately, demand outstripping supply ...

No-bull bull market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... 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 and a not ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... tsunami and resulting nuclear crisis. But dealers took the opportunity on Wednesday to cash in while tensions in North Africa and the Middle East - with Libya hit by UN-back airstrikes and uprisings in the Arab world - weighed on sentiment. Meanwhile ...

Unknown unknowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... financial market behaviour this month. There were concerns over escalating price of oil due to tensions in the Middle East and Africa, there were fears of runaway inflation and the consequent withdrawing of policy stimulus and lifting of interest rates ...

Funds join forces for Asian growth

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... Australian equities manager with around $70 million in FUM, will be consolidated into 8IP. Both companies are funded by South Africa's Sanlam International Investment Partners, which seeded 8IP with an initial $100 million for its 2010 launch. "Sanlam ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... leads from offshore trading overnight, as world markets reflect uncertainty over the effects of political turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East, and the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. On the ASX 24 at 0718 AEDT, the March share price index futures ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... hundred people, and the capital remained quiet. Oil traders have been worried the violence in the Middle East and North Africa would spread to the world's No 1 oil exporter. The earthquake and oil protests largely overshadowed a report from the Commerce ...