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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
... yesterday for the Australia Day public holiday, and will reopen today. On Friday, markets finished in the black for the third straight session. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed up 279.9 points, or 5.02 per cent, to 5,860.3 and the All Ordinaries ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... Michael Heffernan said the market was recovering its losses. "It's a very happy day on the market," he said. "This is the third day in a row that we've had increases in the market of well over two per cent." Mr Heffernan said the main catalyst contributing ...

CFS engages Innovest for ESG research

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFS GAM) has recruited the services of third party research providers, Innovest Strategic Value Advisers, in the next phase of its ongoing integration of environment, social and governance (ESG) risk assessment ...

Asia's de-coupling is on track

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
... Robert Prior-Wandesford, said Malaysia's ability to grow GDP from 5.7 per cent at the end of 2006 to 6.7 per cent in the third quarter of last year, despite a plunge American exports belies those who doubt Asian economies cannot decouple. Standard Chartered ...

China's investor confidence crisis

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
... Shenzhen composite also fell 7.7 per cent while Hong Kong's bellwether index, the Hang Seng plunged 8.7 per cent to close a third down on its 31,600 high. Economists aren't calling an end to China's bull market just yet. But Jing Ulrich, analyst with ...

Too little too late

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
... $130 billion off market value. Fuelling further losses were revelations that Investment bank Merrill Lynch had followed its third quarter US$8.4 billion blowout (due to heavy writedowns totaling US$16.5 billion worth of sub prime mortgages and bonds) ...

K2 to tread lightly in 2008

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
... toughest challenge yet for its investors. K2's Select International Absolute Return Fund, which recently celebrated its third birthday, has delivered 23.17 per cent p.a. for investors net of fees, and 86.86 per cent since its inception. K2's Asian Absolute ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
... down 39.12 points, or 1.63 per cent, at 2,355.47. LONDON - Britain's FTSE 100 index fell in volatile trade, racking up its third successive day of losses. Commodity shares took a whipping on fears of a US recession. The FTSE 100 shed 0.68 per cent or ...

Who cares about the US, it's Asia that matters

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... billion of dollars, these were the glory days. In 1906 fifty per cent of exports went to the UK while wool accounted for one-third of our total export tally, which of course is why agriculturalists were our business juggernauts and why the Country Party ...

Skandia appoints retail head

... billion-plus in funds under management and was awarded the 2007 Rising Star in the John West Platform awards last year. It's the third time the group has won the accolade in four consecutive years. Prior to joining Skandia, Black was the general manager ...