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PMI surveys say...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
... Here are the flashes: The HSBC flash China manufacturing PMI (compiled by Markit) confirms the on-going slowdown in the Chinese economy with the flash index dropping below the 50 expansion/contraction line to an 11-month low of 49.2 in March from 50.7 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
... 5,088.28 points. However London's benchmark FTSE 100 index ended down 0.26 perent at 7,019.68 points as data showing the Chinese economy slowing weighed on mining stocks. European stocks had initially fallen in the wake of disappointing Chinese manufacturing ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
... earnings guidance and posted an 18 per cent jump in interim net profit. Le Brun said investors would also have an eye on Chinese manufacturing data due to be delivered around lunchtime on Tuesday. "A goal for the market would probably be to at least ...

Former Platinum deputy CIO sets up new boutique

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... are likely to be more concentrated than Platinum's portfolios but will have a similar focus on the Asian, particularly Chinese, consumer. One specific investment opportunity he highlighted was LCD glass, which is likely to be helped by a weakening Japanese ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... 74.45 points, to 3,577.30 - its highest close since mid-May 2008 - with investors still buoyed by weekend comments from Chinese Premier Li Keqiang that the government was fully equipped to support the economy if it continues to struggle. Hong Kong gained ...

Investment professionals depressed over future employment

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... than their global counterparts, with 77% and 60% of respondents respectively expect their job prospects to increase. "Chinese respondents anticipate GDP growth of 6.2% and India 5.8%, figures which far exceed the anaemic 1.6% from Australians," Serhan ...

China millennials dictate future of emerging-market investment

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
The rise of affluent Chinese "millennials" is driving changes in the emerging-market investment space, according to AB. China has an estimated 300 million people born between 1980 and 2000, and this generation is distinct from those previous in that ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... New York on Friday. HONG KONG - Shanghai was the stand-out stock market in the region, extending last week's gains after Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said the government had enough in its armoury to support the world's number two economy. Shanghai jumped ...

PBOC to QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... interest rate borrowings for lower interest bonds. It gained greater traction (and amount) following comments made by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences researcher Liu Yihui that he expects the Ministry of Finance to allow as much as 10 trillion yuan ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
... Street. Shanghai on Tuesday tumbled 2.20 per cent, or 73.24 points, to 3,263.05 after rallying on Monday in response to the Chinese central bank's weekend interest rate cut. Hong Kong shed 0.74 per cent, or 184.66 points, to end at 24,702.78 Tokyo closed ...