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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
... lost 0.8 per cent while JPMorgan Chase gave up 0.6 per cent. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets fell Friday as the eurozone approved a Cyprus bailout that will see the country take a harder hit, with US retail sales figures also damping sentiment. ...

Still opportunities for flexible bond managers

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013
... opportunities in credit markets, particularly in investment grade corporates, emerging market sovereigns and some assets in the eurozone periphery," he explained. "Some areas of the credit market have an attractive crisis premium. European financials ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
... deficit widened in February, largely because of a 1.1 per cent slide in exports amid weaker demand from the crisis-hit eurozone. HONG KONG - Asian markets have mostly risen, boosted by positive inflation data from China, but Tokyo's winning streak ended ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
... LONDON - European stock markets have slumped again after European Central Bank boss Mario Draghi said there were risks to eurozone economic growth and as investors kept a close watch over escalating Korean tensions. London's FTSE 100 index of leading ...

Frightened eurozone savers to buy Aussie dollars

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
The harsh treatment of Cyprus in the latest chapter of the eurozone crisis has set a dangerous precedent, according to Clime Asset Management's John Abernathy. Despite bureaucrats insistence that the 'haircut', which could see wealthy depositors losing ...

Asian bonds insulated from Cyprus turmoil

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... Management. HSBC chief investment officer for fixed income in Asia Pacific Cecilia Chan says that insulation from the eurozone crisis is just one of many reasons for choosing Asia over developed world bond markets. "While we are seeing some noise in ...

Template of a bail-in?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
... if necessary the uninsured deposit holders." Investors and rich depositors in the rest of the problem members of the Eurozone beware! Mynheer Dijsselbloem is "pushing back". He may have spoken too soon. Once he saw the financial markets' reaction to ...

Reignited euro crisis prompts gold rush

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
Global traders are rushing to buy gold as the eurozone crisis once again rears its ugly head. The number of traders betting on a rise in the price of the precious metal grew faster than at any point since the onset of the financial crisis, according ...

Treasuries - safe but not so rewarding

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
... the usual speculations of not so long ago. No Cyprus bank bailout, Cyprus government defaults on its debt, Cyprus exits Eurozone...who's next?...until bye bye Eurozone. There's hope that Cyprus and its benefactors would eventually hammer a last minute ...

No Grexit, no Cyprexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013
... blinked when much larger sums were involved, what Cyprus is asking for is just loose change. It would be so easy for the Eurozone to cut off the tiny island - geographically it's closer to the Middle East, central Asia and even Africa (I just had a look ...