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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... had fallen 77 cents to $83.76. Fortescue Metals was down four cents at $6.36. Equity markets fell overnight after North Korea and South Korea exchanged artillery fire near their disputed sea border, killing at least two South Korean marines. Shares also ...

When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... more than half a century. They had big skirmishes in 1999, in 2002 and just last March. The world got along nicely. South Korea even grew wealthy and is the only Asian country to become a member of the rich club of nations - the OECD - apart from Japan ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... cent. The banks mainly were higher at noon. ANZ was leading the way, after reports the bank failed to win control of South Korea's fifth-largest bank. According to the Wall Street Journal, South Korea's Hana Financial Group won control of Korea Exchange ...

ANZ invests more in BoT

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... Region that it said is a priority investment area for the Chinese government due to its trade and investment links with Korea, Japan and ASEAN countries. ANZ is the second largest shareholder in BoT after the Tianjin Government. "As we deepen the cooperation ...

What ifs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... of the first world war that happened nine decades and two years ago, the leaders of the G-20 nations are meeting in South Korea, all hoping that they would not have to sign their own version of an armistice. Each hopes that an all out currency war could ...

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... devaluation/intervention/manipulation competition. Here are the snippets from Bloomberg: "Asian currencies fell to a one-week low after Bank of Korea Governor Kim Choong Soo said today that measures to mitigate capital flows could be "useful." Hours ...

G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... chatter and too little done. Financial markets were right to expect that the brewing currency war would be discussed in South Korea. But they were also correct to anticipate that nothing of substance will eventuate. Heck, they were not even able to stop ...

Australia well behind in carbon pricing

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... global research into carbon pricing in the electricity sector of six key economies - Australia, China, USA, UK, Japan, South Korea. According to the research, Australia is well behind its competitors in the UK, China and the US in terms of making businesses ...

Cheap talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... China's yuan is undervalued, America's loose monetary policy, Japan's unilateral currency intervention, Brazil and South Korea's measures to prevent appreciation of their respective currencies, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Surely, no one expected a ...

Grand currency sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010