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Yuan stable (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... caught the G20's attention. Though they didn't name names, China was surely on their minds at their meeting in Ankara, Turkey when they released the communique stating: "We reiterate our commitment to move toward more market-determined exchange rate ...

Australia a priority for HSBC despite job cuts

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... group confirmed that it wants to reduce its risk weighted assets by 25%. To achieve that, it will sell its operations in Turkey and Brazil, although it will maintain a presence in the latter to serve large corporate clients with respect to their international ...

Australian stock market to open lower

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... record low against the US dollar on Monday, breaking through the 2.8 lira level against the dollar for the first time. Turkey's central bank acted swiftly to give some support to the pressured Turkish lira, saying it was pruning its short-term foreign ...

Currency warriors, mount horses and draw swords

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
... latest round of "surprises" - monetary policy easing by the central banks of Australia, India, Singapore, China, Peru, Turkey, Russia and Canada; QE by the ECB; more (or longer) QE by the BOJ; and the RBNZ's policy hawk to dove reversal. Financial markets ...

When Harry met Sally syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... offered surprises of their own. No one expected Peru's central bank to cut rates but it did, by 25 bps to 3.25%. No one did Turkey too but it did, by 50 bps to 7.75%. However, these two central banks belong in the "If a tree falls in a forest and no ...

How to understand emerging markets

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... in the north-east bloc; sub-Saharan Africa, South America and Indonesia in the north-west bloc; Mexico, Eastern Europe, Turkey and the Indian sub-continent in the south-west bloc; and China-centred East Asia in the south-east bloc. "The developed world ...

Australia among the big guns in millionaire stakes

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... having more than US$100 million in private assets. Australia was narrowly beaten out in the UHNW stakes by India (284) and Turkey (288). UHNW households held US$8.4 trillion in wealth in 2013 (5.5% of the global total), an increase of 19.7% over 2012. ...

I swear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
... markets, more than four times US lenders and putting them at greater risk if financial market turmoil in countries such as Turkey, Brazil, India and South Africa intensifies." And who invests in European banks? And what's the emerging market volatility ...

Roast Turkey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
Whoa! Bet you felt the same way when you saw what the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) got up to yesterday - it proved it was no turkey. Go ahead punk, make my day! This was the threat the CBRT made to all 'em sellers, shorters and dumpers ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
The sharemarket is higher after Turkey's move to head off a potential domestic crisis boosted global investor confidence and dampened fears about troubles in emerging markets. A major drag on equities recently has been concerns about a slowdown in emerging ...