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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2010
... HONG KONG - Hong Kong stocks fell 2.05 per cent amid fears of tightening moves by central banks in the region following India's surprise rate rise. The benchmark Hang Seng Index tumbled 437.57 points to 20,933.25. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
... stocks fell Friday as investors took profits from recent gains and fretted about the global economic recovery following India's surprise interest rate hike. After opening with small gains, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 37.19 points, 0.35 per ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
... 361.56, or 1.7 per cent, to 21,384.49. China's main Shanghai index added 1.3 per cent, by 57.64 points to 3,050.48, and India's Sensex benchmark climbed 0.6 per cent. WELLINGTON - Telecom shares fell to a new all-time low today, making it difficult for ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2010
... 21,228.20, while South Korea's Kospi shed 0.3 per cent to 1,656.62. China's Shanghai benchmark added 0.1 per cent to 3,051.28 and India's Sensex was up 0.2 per cent. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand share market closed little changed on a day in which the ...

While we wait for payrolls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
Whew! Thank goodness we got some reprieve from the avalanche of economic data released over the past few days. Wall Street closed flat to up overnight as it nervously awaits what the mother of all economic releases - the US Non-farm Payrolls report ...

From ratchet to resilient: an economy in bloom

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... industrialisation. At CommSec, we do have buy ratings on BHP and Rio Tinto because we believe in this long-term trend." "China and India will shape the economy not just this year but the next decade," he said. He expects inflation to tick up slightly ...

RARE eyes Indian and Mexican assets

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... RARE Infrastructure, which doubled its FUM from $834 million to $1.53 billion in 12 months, is buying up more assets in India and Mexico within its emerging markets portfolio. Sarah Shaw, senior investment analyst and portfolio manager - emerging markets ...

Gold's dimming lustre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... financial community's growing fear about further devaluation of the US dollar. US dollar weakness has prompted China, Russia and India to propose that the greenback be replaced by a multi-reserve currency system. When faith in the fiat currency is lost ...

No easy gains in Indian equities: Pereira

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... after the index returned the strongest gains in Asia last year, said one fund manager. John Pereira, managing director at India Equities Fund, said the Indian market posted the third strongest market in the world behind Russia and Brazil with the Sensex ...

Positive contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
Running of the bulls. Peppered with undeniably wonderful set of numbers, Wall Street couldn't have it any other way overnight. The Dow closed 1.2 per cent higher - the biggest daily advance in about a month - the S&P 500 surged 1.4 per cent and the ...