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Japanese broker enters Australian market

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
Japanese brokerage firm Invast Securities has launched its Australian operation after gaining its licence from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Under chief executive Brendan Gunn, Invast Australia will offer various trading ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... when the European single currency hit a three-month low point at $US1.2755. HONG KONG - Asian markets ended mixed, with Japanese shares hit by a pick-up in the yen, while Hong Kong and Shanghai saw healthy buying despite worse-than-expected trade data ...

The others

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
... quarter - the first positive reading since September 2011 - from minus 8 in the first. And get this...confidence among Japanese manufacturers has improved despite the recent increase in JGB yields (which appear to have settled at the mid 0.8% level from ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
... Friday. HONG KONG - Asian markets were mixed as another set of weak manufacturing data out of China offset a positive Japanese business confidence survey. Tokyo rose 1.28 per cent, or 175.18 points, to 13,852.50, thanks to a surge in the Bank of Japan's ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... had made money available to some firms in a bid to prevent a cash crunch that had sent shares into a tailspin. However, Japanese shares gave up initial gains and ended in negative territory as the US dollar's rally against the yen petered out, while ...

TAL Life CEO to sit on parent board

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
... shareholding before in 2010 making a takeover offer for the company which in 2011 then became a whole owned subsidiary of the Japanese company.

Environmental trends a boost for Impax

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2013
... significant feature of the investment landscape. We've already seen that in the wake of the Fukushima crisis," Simm said. The Japanese tsunami in 2011 flooded the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Northern Japan, leading to worst nuclear disaster since ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... to $52.45. BHP told the market it is selling a 15 per cent stake in its West Australian iron ore Jimblebar mine to the Japanese conglomerates ITOCHU Corporation and Mitsui for $US1.5 billion ($A1.64 billion). The Australian market appears to be minimising ...

Nikko AM appoints chief legal officer

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... across the Asia Pacific region. Long has lived and worked in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo and is fluent in Japanese. "Ross has a detailed understanding of the complex legal frameworks of Japan and many Asian countries, as well as a real ...

Aust shares open more than 1pc higher

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013
... gains on Wall Street overnight, following positive retail and unemployment data and a rise in the US dollar against the Japanese Yen. Rivkin global analyst Tim Radford said if the gains stayed strong all day along with an improving Australian dollar ...