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Capital at risk in emerging markets

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... London-based hedge fund GLG Partners, told trustees at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds that the unrest in the Middle East is likely to spread to Latin America and parts of Asia, threatening Western investments. "It's not a revolution of ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
The Australian share market edged back into the black by noon despite end-of-quarter profit taking and weakness in the energy sector weighing on the market. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 5.5 points higher, by 0.11 per cent, at 4,827.7 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... that the underlying economic growth story remains strong enough to withstand a tumultuous backdrop of unrest in the Middle East, Japan's devastating earthquake and deep concerns on eurozone debt. In London, the FTSE 100 index of leading shares closed ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... private client adviser Bill Bishop said one conjecture for the rise of gold stocks was that ongoing tensions in the Middle East and Japan's nuclear crisis had prompted some investors to seek the safety of the precious metal. "It looks like they are having ...

We shall overcome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... nuclear plant where 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 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... narrowly mixed on Tuesday after an uneven set of economic data with investors carefully watching events in Japan, the Middle East and eurozone struggler Portugal. Dealers said the continuing crisis at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant, damaged by ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... sharp gains made last week as hopes for a strong economic recovery offset a litany of bad news from Japan and the Middle East. Dealers said investors were looking ahead to US data, including the key jobs report due Friday, which many expect to confirm ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
... Corp. and Accenture Plc are helping the markets extend the week's gains, despite continued euro-area debt concerns, Middle East tensions, and the nuclear crisis in Japan," said analysts at brokerage Charles Schwab. Oracle shares closed up 1.7 per cent ...

Commodities rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
... gains in energy prices - up 35.5 per cent since January last year. But despite the additional premium created by the Middle East and North African turmoil, demand for crude oil had been steadily increasing as a result of strengthening economic activity. ...

PineBridge enjoys strong inflows in EM debt

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... supplier of commodities, too, yet their currencies have not participated fully into that boom and future demand. The Middle East conflict and the Japanese earthquake have dampened some of Mittal's prediction on growth - but only by timing, not in size. ...