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Australia a priority for HSBC despite job cuts

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... areas, along with Canada, Egypt, India and Taiwan. Other growth areas for HSBC will be China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, UAE and the United Kingdom. "The world is increasingly connected, with Asia expected to show high growth and become ...

Universities at fossil fuel divestment frontlines

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... that of the 97 institutions surveyed across 22 countries - including Australia, Japan, Belgium, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the UK - 69% of participants believed their stakeholders had Environmental, Social and Governance concerns, with ...

ESG becoming essential to insto alternative investment

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... survey of 97 institutional investors across 22 countries - including Australia, Japan, Belgium, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the UK - the research showed that 75% of respondents incorporated ESG issues into their alternative asset investments. ...

From the mouths of Feds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... oil prices; weakening US economic activity/re-strengthening US economic activity and the latest... Germanwings and Saudi Arabia/Iran/Yemen, et farting cetera. But at the end of the day, it's the Fed and what it does to the fed funds rate that'll be the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open flat after a fluctuating night on Wall Street where a rebound in tech stocks offset a transport industry, including airlines, slump. At 0800 AEDT on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was unchanged ...

Auld lang syne

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
... mid-2005 (the heydays of the global economy). Sure, sure, weep...if you're a producer (or maybe not, in the case of Saudi Arabia, the UAE or Kuwait - they want it to kill off competitors), but consumers should rejoice and... there's more of 'em than ...

The Grinch is stealing Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... also a five-year low. Prices could slide even lower for on top of excess crude supply, the largest oil producer -- Saudi Arabia - is engaging in outright price discounting, and on top of this, Iraq - the second biggest producer - has followed suit. This ...

Sliding oil price would stop the slide in the oil price

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... reaction: "The conflicting interests inside OPEC arise from the differences in its members' oil industries and economies. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait and other Gulf producers can extract oil cheaply. They also -- Iraq excepted -- have a lot of cash in ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... market. Oil prices have plunged, with Brent North Sea crude for delivery in December hitting a four-year low after Saudi Arabia slashed its export prices for the US market. Copper futures were down one per cent and gold also fell, as investors believe ...

Why the eurozone cannot afford cheap oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... oil production and no cuts in OPEC output - and low demand -- due to weak global growth. However, this time around, Saudi Arabia photo bombed the picture... it engaged in price discounting. As per Bloomberg, "State-owned producer Saudi Arabian Oil Co. ...