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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... managers' index (PMI) of manufacturing hit 51.0 last month, up from 50.3 in July and the best reading since April last year. Anything above 50 indicates growth, while anything below signals contraction. On Monday, HSBC confirmed its own PMI came in at ...

Academic questions Libs' super board independence policy

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013
... added: "What I have difficulty with is when we try and view this notion of independence as a procedural value, as being anything other than a structural requirement." She said that tests of independence generally do not get rid of cronyism, but rather ...

Global uncertainty provides opportunities in retail property

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
... an opportunity. "There are concerns that the economy is under pressure because of the impact on the currency more than anything but the uncertainty is only temporary. I think once the election has been decided the future will look clearer," he said. ...

Problems, problems, problems

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
... its public debt bill which has grown to around A¥1000 tril (US$10 bil). They should not.A That's if Japan has learnt anything from its 1997 experience.A Back then the economy was growing good - 3.35% in Q4 1996 (yoy) and 3.34% in Q1 1997 - and consumer ...

Zurich fund now on major platforms

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013
... doubled since the Fund first began buying the company towards the end of 2010 when it was very hard to find anyone with anything good to say about the US housing market.

Let 'em rip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
... US central bank's cautious statement meant it was business as usual on the local front. "The Fed certainly didn't do anything to really rock the boat," he said. "I think that's certainly given a bit of reassurance." He said investors were unlikely to ...

Nothing below seven percent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013
... Bloomberg, just telling it the way it is. Unless something comes out of left field (which gets me thinking, why couldn't anything come out of the right field?), this would go on and on until the Fed's next FOMC meeting in August...and most definitely ...

The game markets play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... hardly notice any difference. Well...you would have missed another buy-op but that's not the point. The point is hardly anything has changed. Wall Street is back recording fresher and newer record highs as the US economy is still improving and still ...

Super pioneer advances innovative infra funding model

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... agree to an absolute cap on fees forever." "That has to be the only income the manager can get. The manager can't get anything other than that. They can't make a windfall, they can't have their mates refinance it, they can't have related parties anywhere ...