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You did this! No, you did!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
... to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people living life in peace..." Perhaps it's the new leadership in China then. No one's sure how the Xi-Jinping/Li Keqiang tandem would fare compared with Batman and Robin, sorry, Hu Jintao and Wen ...

Emerging market bubbles present opportunity: Tyndall

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... pressure on commodities, for instance, they can find growth in the domestic consumer." In 2011 concerns of a slowdown in China, as well as other factors, saw swathes of hot money fly out of emerging markets in favour of developed markets, leading to ...

Corporate spending the catalyst for global markets

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2012
... strategy at Standard Life Investments. Milligan says that the impact of the US election result, the leadership change in China and the strengthening of resolve in the eurozone, while broadly positive, were already reflected in the price of global assets. ...

The song remains the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... the political dynamic that makes compromise such a mortal risk." So really nothing's changed. Expect nothing to change in China too. It's currently in the midst of overhauling its leadership team. The faces will be different but the goal remains the ...

ETP flows eclipse 2011 totals

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
... market equities, China exposures led, followed by broad emerging market exchange traded products (ETPs). Central banks in China and Brazil have aggressively lowered interest rates in 2012. Investors hedged risk by putting money into gold as Gold ETPs ...

Market wrap early AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
... US presidential election, while concerns over the eurozone returned to the fore. Eyes are also on the start this week in China of the Communist Party's 18th congress, which will see a once-in-a-decade leadership transition. Tokyo on Tuesday softened ...

Western recovery expected to lift Asian stocks

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
Hope of recovery in the developed world, improvements in China and Gillard rhetoric around the 'Asian century', have combined to create a golden opportunity for investment in Asia, according to Certitude's Craig Mowll. Mowll, chief executive of the ...

Wealth gap narrows in China

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
Farmers in China have seen their incomes grow rapidly this year, helping to close a wealth gap between rural and urban areas. It was the third year in a row that the gap has narrowed, according to a Ministry of Agriculture report cited by the state ...

Good not great but getting better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... HSBC and Markit Economics' PMI survey that showed the index jumping to an eight-month high. And it's not only happening in China, Markit Economics' PMI updates across several Asian countries also improved last month. Taiwan's purchasing managers index ...

With or without China we're not cactus: James

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
Despite concerns over a seismic slowdown in China, the Asian monolith remains a global economic powerhouse responsible for 34% of global economic growth in 2012, according to Commsec economist Craig James. In his keynote address to the AFA Conference ...