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Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... in July, owing to slumping demand in the key export markets of Europe and the United States. On Monday a PMI reading from HSBC showed activity fell to its lowest level since March 2009 in August. The final reading of the British banking giant's index ...

Limboland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012

Fall on the Wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012
... rate down - from 405K last year. So all good? Errr... perhaps, if the US economy is operating in a vacuum. But it ain't. The HSBC flash manufacturing PMI for China fell to a nine-month low of 47.8 in August from 49.3 in the previous month. More fuel ...

MFOs take growth from banks

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
... bank-affiliated organisations worldwide, according to a Bloomberg Markets study. Of the top 10 fastest-growing firms ranked, only HSBC Private Wealth Solutions was part of a big bank with the other nine on the list boutiques. The boutiques operate with ...

CFSGAM appoints senior resources analyst

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
... experience as a resource equities analyst and has previously worked for firms such as Citigroup, Salomon Smith Barney and HSBC. Mangano is also a trained metallurgist and has worked for more than a decade in the zinc industry. Dr Joanne Warner, head ...

UK launches bank probe amid Libor scandal

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... fined AU$451 million by the UK Financial Services Authority last week following an investigation into bank lending rates. HSBC, RBS, UBS and Citigroup are also being investigated in connection to the alleged market manipulation that led to the record ...

Tell that to the marines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... official PMI dipped to 50.2 last month from 50.4 in May. While this is ahead of consensus expectations for a reading of 49.9, HSBC's PMI measure, at 48.2, was the lowest since November last year. So too is Europe's. Markit's Eurozone manufacturing was ...

China manuf growth figures being misread

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
HSBC's flash China Purchasing Managers' Index result released last week is being read as further evidence of a broad-based manufacturing slowdown, but this misinterprets what's going on in the sector, said Premium China Funds Management. The common ...

HSBC launches online trading platform

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2012
HSBC has partnered with Bell Direct to launch an online sharing trading platform. HSBC Online Share Trading will provide a range of wealth management solutions from non-advisory products and services and include financial planning and wealth protection. ...

ILB protect fixed-income: HSBC

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... institutional investors turning towards active bond management. Julian Renoncourt, head of inflation and global bonds for HSBC Global Asset Management, said this is reinforced by how inflation linked bonds improve the risk-profile of fixed income investments ...