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Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... while European concerns also remained in focus. Adding to the selling pressure were preliminary numbers from banking giant HSBC showing China's manufacturing activity hit a seven-month low in June. Sydney fell 1.09 per cent, or 44.8 points, to 4087.6 ...

HSBC invests $100m in water

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
HSBC Group has announced a five-year global investment of $100 million in water following findings that by 2050 the GDP of the top 10 river basins will exceed that of the USA, Japan and Germany combined. A new report commissioned by HSBC from Frontier ...

Volatility predicted for emerging markets

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
... from Europe are likely to be the three factors presenting a challenge to short-term emerging market volatility, according to HSBC Global Asset Management. Guillermo Osses, head of EMD portfolio management at HSBC GAM believes that as a consequence of ...

Show me the stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... Ok that's Europe done... for now. But there's still China and the latest PMI survey confirmed that it is indeed slowing. HSBC's preliminary measure showed the manufacturing index there fell to 48.7 in May from a final reading of 49.3 in April. That's ...

Managers confident on value as China PMI contracts

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
... Chinese manufacturing show a contraction for the seventh consecutive month, although investment managers remain confident. HSBC's purchasing managers index (PMI) yesterday indicated factory output fell from 49.3 in April to 48.7 in May, representing ...

Instos increase alternative allocations

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2012
... that will complement what they have on the traditional side," said Faraz Sultan, global head of portfolio management for HSBC Alternative Investments. "Obviously that extends to risk, return, correlation, liquidity and so on - so things are really narrowing ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2012
... four-month lows against the dollar after the G8 summit. But Hong Kong stocks fell, with the market's largest constituent HSBC down on its exposure to the eurozone crisis. Tokyo gained 0.26 per cent, or 22.58 points, to end at 8,633.89 and Seoul closed ...

ANZ makes key research appointments

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... experience to perform the role of head of global markets research, having run strategy teams across Asia including seven years at HSBC in Hong Kong where he was global head of emerging market FX Strategy," said Hogan. Liu, previously head of Greater ...

No surprise in surprises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... expectations of a 28.1 reading and 47.7 in the previous month. Surprise, surprise. Surprise, surprise too for China's PMI. HSBC's flash estimate showed the index unexpectedly rose to 49.1 this month from 48.3 in March. But here I really don't know what ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... cent lower, Sydney shed 0.32 per cent, Seoul closed off 0.1 per cent and Shanghai closed down 0.76 per cent. The preliminary HSBC China manufacturing purchasing managers index rose to a two-month high of 49.1 in April compared with a final reading of ...