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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
... per cent, at 9,639.72 points. Earlier in the session, the Nikkei touched 9,395.29 points, its lowest level since early December. HONG KONG - Hong Kong shares closed firmer on Thursday, extending gains from the previous session as investors sought out ...

Asia unseats South Africa in gold race

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... the second quarter of this year. In comparison, prices in 2009 averaged $972. Gold peaked at a record $1218 in early December but has since fallen back. World output was 2,553 tonnes last year, compared with 2,049 in 2008.

Australia better than triple A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... a possible downgrade of America's credit rating. Worries about the US credit rating made the headlines when in early December last year, Moody's issued a report that the US and UK could "test the Aaa boundaries" because of their worsening public finances. ...

Star ratings face predictability test

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
... ratings system failed or virtually lost all of its predicted ability when measured over a full market cycle. In early December, Advisor Perspectives, a US-based investment trends data provider for financial planners conducted its own analysis on how ...

Zurich ramps up investment business

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
... manager, American Century, to develop a product next year. "We'll be doing some initial research and meetings with in early December and then looking to do a full launch to the planner market in 2010," he said.

Liquidity flow versus trade flow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
... credit to finance trade flows. The Baltic Index turned up sharply in the first half of 2009 after touching bottom in early December last year. But after peaking in June, the index has again fallen by close to 48 per cent. This is one of the reasons cited ...

DC plans to axe managers

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... Contribution Trends Survey: Impact of Recent Market Volatility on DC Plans was fielded online in late November and early December last year. Results were garnered from 107 US-based DC plan sponsors, with the majority of respondents offering 401(k) plans. ...

Unlisted assets hold value: BUSS(Q)

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... we've seen some upward revaluations," he said. O'Sullivan's comments come after the fund released a statement in early December last year which stated its unlisted asset investments, which account for almost 35 per cent of BUSS(Q)'s fund under management ...

Karara restructures for Aus eq focus

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
... 4.53 per cent against the benchmark S&P/ASX 300 Accumulation index. The restructure is expected to be finalised by early December.

Central banks try again to lift liquidity

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
... agreements now last to the end of September 2008. The introduction of these swap agreements themselves, back in early December 2007, was intended at the time to be a circuit breaker to the interbank market, though its effectiveness then was doubtful. ...