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Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... news of another strong aftershock that rocked Japan yesterday - a sorrowful reminder of the continuing plight of the Japanese people - but at the same time another one of the 400 plus aftershocks that followed the 11 March 2011 tremor. Financial markets ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... earthquake on Thursday, he said. "The price action of the last week or so suggests the market has taken its eye off the Japanese situation a bit. That earthquake is a reminder of the fact that it may not be appropriate to entirely remove the risk premium ...

Unshaken and unstirred

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... closed weaker - but I wouldn't call a 0.15 per cent slip heavy selling. Sure, there could be some concern about this fresh Japanese incident but it might as well be investors consolidating their profits ahead of the weekend -- the weekend of the day ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... key interest rate decision by the European Central Bank. Amid ongoing caution over the economic impact of the March 11 Japanese earthquake-tsunami and resulting atomic crisis, traders in Tokyo helped the Nikkei index up 0.07 per cent, or 6.56 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... plant, ended at a record low Wednesday despite news that a leak of highly radioactive water into the sea had been stopped. Japanese shares fell despite the yen's continuing losses caused by expectations of tighter monetary policy moves in the United ...

RBA worries not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... deserved only one single sentence as far as GG is concerned. "The recent disaster in Japan will have a noticeable effect on Japanese production in the near term, although the impact on the broader Asian region is expected to be limited." Read again. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... KONG - Asian stocks mostly rose on Monday after the United States said unemployment hit a two-year low last month, while Japanese traders were lifted by a weaker yen. Optimism on Tokyo's Nikkei was subdued by ongoing concerns over the effects of last ...

Hunter Hall defiant on Japan

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... Executive officer David Buckland said that the fund's Asian Value Trust, launched at the start of March, had lifted its Japanese weighting from 17 per cent to 21 per cent in recent weeks. "In the Japanese stocks we own there is very little supply chain ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... coal. Banks also rose as their valuations remain at a relatively low level compared with the broader market. TOKYO - Japanese shares closed lower on Friday as the new financial year began under the shadow of an unresolved nuclear crisis at the stricken ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... the eurozone, an improving US economic outlook and growing appetite for risk. Investors remained cautious however as Japanese crews worked to avert a disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi atomic plant, which was rocked by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. ...