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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
... Industries. The fall in the jobs rate was enough to send dealers into the dollar instead of the yen, which gave a lift to Japanese exporters. In other markets, Singapore closed down 0.59 per cent, Jakarta fell 0.24 per cent, Kuala Lumpur gained 0.25 ...

Middle East mole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
... Japan is not beholden to foreigners as the Europeans are and besides, the resulting yen depreciation is exactly what the Japanese government wants - it'll boost its external accounts and at the same time generate a little more inflation. The mole of ...

Downgrade me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... the G-20 this year. It didn't have anything good to say about Japan either citing its disappointment over the Diet's (Japanese Parliament) recent approval of spending increases that's offsetting earlier targets to bring down the deficit this year. But ...

Asian Giants lands in China

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2011
... approximately 20 per cent is invested. Recently, the fund secured its first UK public authority pension fund client and a Japanese pension fund investor, with commitments of approximately US$66 million in total. AMP expects to close the funds for commitments ...

New beginnings at Tower

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... the insurance landscape. The $1.2 billion deal, which has already been approved by Tower's board, represents the second Japanese acquisition of an Australian financial services firm in a matter of months. Nikko Asset Management's $125 million purchase ...

That sinking feeling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2010

Best house in the slums

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
... Nikkei-225's 3.2 per cent decline and the Shanghai Composite's 13.3 per cent drop. I'm sure everybody understands why the Japanese and Chinese bourses are on the slide. Tokyo's still battling deflation - that scourge of "spending now" and "investing ...

Danger everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
... growth report does not turn out as bad as many expect. But even if it did, China's committing seppuku (yeah, I know it's a Japanese term for suicide), isn't it? The days when Canberra is serenading Beijing with "You raise me up" would soon be over. It's ...

BNY Mellon's Ankura wins Russell Aus Eq mandate

NEWS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... excluding those with deficient free cash flow or high leverage." Ankura, based in Sydney, specialises in Australian and Japanese equities and has an outstanding long-term track record managing institutional funds since 1995. The fund manages approximately ...

Hunter Hall regains ground

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... investment officer, talked about some of the "undervalued" stocks they bought in the past 18 months, including stakes in a Japanese karaoke company Daiichikosho, Indian public sector banks and Japanese media firm Proto Corporation. "Proto is probably ...