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Posh playground turns sandpit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
... swaps linked to Abu Dhabi government bonds increased 18.5 to 155, Vietnam rose 39 to 252, Indonesia climbed 27 to 229 and Russia added 13 to 205." Wall Street is closed giving thanks so we still have to wait when its celebrants return. But the sharp ...

Small thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2009
... the US dollar in decline, other central banks are looking to increase their reserves too. Think China. Think Japan. Think Russia. And all other central banks which are funding the American dream - creditors to America. With central banks in on the game ...

The shrinking big dollar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
... fall becomes disorderly...look out below! There may be some truth after all in the unsourced UK press report that China, Russia, the Gulf Arab States, and France convened a secret meeting to develop a multi-year plan to dump the US currency and replace ...

HSBC unveils EM equity fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... Equity Fund in Australia. The fund gives local investors exposure to some of the world's fastest growing economies in Asia, Russia, Eastern Europe, South Africa and Latin America. Managed by HSBC Global Asset Management's active management specialist ...

Herding 20 cats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... the US, Japan, Germany, France, Italy and the UK. It became the G-7 in 1976 when Canada joined. Seven became G-8 after Russia's inclusion in 1998. Twenty heads are better than eight. Last weekend in Pittsburg, the annual G-8 summit has been expanded ...

Greenback weakness not all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2009
... precious metals, base metals - rises as the value of the US dollar falls. Notable beneficiaries are Australia, South Africa, Russia and the OPEC countries. America, itself, will benefit. US exporters would become more competitive in the international ...

G-20 reasons to be hopeful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
A summit to have another summit. If anything, this was the consensus reached at the 4-5 September G-20 meeting in London whose finance ministers and central bankers continue to disagree to agree. But whereas the previous two meetings - November 2008 ...

Firm hails the next emerging market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
... 2002 and July this year, beating its benchmark by more than 7 per cent. The fund currently has a 54 per cent exposure to Russia, 11 per cent exposure to Poland and less than 5 per cent exposure to a range of countries including Hungary, Estonia and the ...

ADB pours $240m to worst hit nations

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
Armenia, Georgia and Tajikistan may still be foreign territories for international fund managers - but a large Asian bank has pumped $240 million into the countries in a move that will help them and subsequently their neighbours, boost their investment ...

Fed brawn, RBA brains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
Days like these, I should have stayed in bed a bit longer. For this is one of those days when overnight action on Wall Street offered no adrenaline hit to my system. Will have to settle for three coffee cups this morning. The S&P slipped 0.3 per cent ...