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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... takeover of Irish rival Aer Lingus. Finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of Seven (G7) wealthiest nations are meeting in Dresden to discuss the global economy and financial regulation, with Athens on the agenda amid stubborn fears ...

BNY Mellon to provide ESG insights

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... issuers. In response to growing ESG concerns in its investor-base, and the growing number of signatories in the United Nations' Principles for Responsible Investment Initiative, BNY's Depositary Receipts arm will give clients access to Sustainalytics' ...

Go south young (China) man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... official handover - before losing as much as 46% by October as the Thailand's currency crisis engulfed more and more Asian nations. That is now but a distant memory and instead of dragging HK down, China has lifted it up. We don't hear or read about ...

Demography must drive reform

ANDREW BRAGG, FSC DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND GLOBAL MARKETS  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... competitiveness. It is an issue which reaches beyond our shores and four year budget cycles. Like many Eastern and Western nations, we are ageing. It is now 13 years since the then Federal Treasurer, Peter Costello, warned that "demography is destiny" ...

Asia already benefiting from fall in oil prices

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... current account deficit. BlackRock also said that emerging market producers such as Venezuela, Russia and several Gulf nations are "likely to suffer" and to "come under intense pressure, which is only likely to grow the longer oil prices remain at these ...

Oil price shock, nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
... prayin' higher oil prices to be. (Apart from those extracting, producing, investing in and lending to oil companies and nations, that is). And oh, climate changers too. But this was exactly what I read this morning as the price of crude plunged again ...

MTAA Super awards $200m global credit mandate

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... investment-grade credits and takes opportunistic positions in convertible securities, the sovereign debt of developed nations, agency bonds, asset-backed securities and high-yield and emerging-market debt, where permitted by client guidelines. It fits ...

Market wrap PM

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... in oil prices hits energy stocks. The Brent price of crude oil has touched a fresh four-and-a-half year low after OPEC nations shied away from cutting production to deal with a global oversupply. "The price is going to remain fairly depressed if not ...

Inflows from overseas double in four years

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... Region Funds Passport, to be piloted from January 2016, will make it easier for two way flow of funds between Fund Passport nations," Lloyd said. FSC chief executive John Brogden added: "The signing of free trade agreements with China, Korea and Japan ...

Crowding in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... investment program..." and is "designed to make use of existing resources and not require any new cash infusions from member nations". This is good. Individual governments can get on repairing their respective fiscal houses at the same time that the ...