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Japan shall overcome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
The still-unfolding disaster in Japan is sapping the optimism off financial markets. Stock markets rallied yesterday but it looks like they'll be down again today. Volatility is the order of today and would remain so for as long as strong aftershocks ...

Funds join forces for Asian growth

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... team of three was responsible for portfolio management, with research support provided by an outsourced team in Bangalore, India," said S&P Fund Services analyst, Justine Gorman.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... 0.84 per cent, partly affected by general jitters about Japan. Sentiment in Mumbai was dented also by data showing that India's industrial output grew by nearly four per cent in January from a year earlier, beating market expectations but also raising ...

NAB buys 35pc stake in AREA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... apartments in Queens, New York and Long Island and the Time Warner centre in New York. The deal also gives nabInvest access to India and also Europe where AREA has investments including a string of shopping centres in Poland, the Pascale Tower in Paris ...

Hunter Hall launches two equity funds

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
Fund manager Hunter Hall taps into rising financial adviser demand for global equities with the launch of a fully-hedged global equities fund and an Asian equities fund. The boutique manager has introduced the new fully hedged global equities fund as ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
The Australian market has received strong, positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with key indices on Wall Street and in Europe clearly higher. Oil and precious metals fell, as investors turned away from their search for safe havens. On the ...

Desert storm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... the following: Top World Oil Consumers (2009) 1. United States 18.8 million barrels per day 2. China 8.3 3. Japan 4.4 4. India 3.1 5. Russia 2.7 6. Brazil 2.5 7. Germany 2.4 8. Saudi Arabia 2.4 9. Korea, South 2.2 10. Canada 2.2 11. Mexico 2.1 12. France ...

Hitting a BRIC wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... as equity markets in the developed economies are starting to outperform those in the fast-growing BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India and China. Bloomberg reports that the MSCI World Index - the benchmark measure for developed equity markets' performance - ...

BNP enjoys wealth lift

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
... Management, improve its position in the top five private banks in Hong Kong and Singapore, maintain its drive in insurance in India, Japan, Korea and Taiwan and keep expanding the presence of the Securities Services business unit in the region," he bank ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
The Australian market is receiving clear, positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with all three key Wall Street indices substantially higher, as were European and Asian markets. Gold was flat but higher, oil was higher, but silver and copper ...