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China to lead IPOs again in 2008

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
... most interest is the industrials sector accounting for 40 per cent of the activity. The Thomson report noted that the financials sector, which lead Chinese IPO proceeds raised since 2005, was now ranking only at number three being expected to drive just ...

Russell adds Plato

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... National Australia Bank, QBE Insurance Group and Rio Tinto. Its market exposure includes 33.8 per cent exposure to financials excluding property trusts, 23.17 per cent in materials, 10.76 per cent in consumer discretionary, 18.65 per cent exposure classified ...

The 93pc tax sting

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... threat of being taxed up to 93 per cent on your super elevates the dread to a whole new level. Corporate super fund Plum Financials Services has warned that the government's new Better Super may increase the chance of members exceeding the concessional ...

BRIC sector splits SRI managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... "If it is a company operating in a country of concern, we look at different aspects of it way before looking at the financials. We would look if the company is involved in the suppression of human rights either directly or indirectly by supporting the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2007
... Shares of credit card company American Express and of Goldman Sachs Group Inc, the largest US securities firm, led financials lower. Home builders were another casualty, with the Dow Jones home construction index sliding nearly three per cent. The Dow ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2007
... Thursday as shares in energy companies climbed on supply concerns, offsetting worries about the economy and a pullback in financials. At home, mining giant BHP Billiton had added 99 cents to $42.99 and Rio Tinto firmed $4.50, or 3.23 per cent, to $14 ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2007
... than 3 per cent, as investors bet the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates next month. Banks, insurers and other financials led the way higher after a Federal Reserve Bank official said recent turbulence may restrict credit more than previously thought ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
... 2,627.94. LONDON - UK stocks lost 1.2 per cent as an intensifying credit market crisis threatened to further batter financials, while weak metal prices offset the impact of bid talk to take most mining stocks lower. The FTSE 100 index lost 77 points ...

Sub-prime chewing up financials

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
While the sub-prime mortgage monster continues gnawing away at financial stocks, oil is boiling towards $100 a barrel and China is snatching wads of its foreign cash reserves away from the green back. The US financial sector is still suffering a sub-prime-mauling ...

Sub-prime still has teeth

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2007
... Fears and rumours over the extent of the fallout from the sub-prime credit crisis gave Wall Street the wobbles, and financials were again brutalised as downgrades on major financial stocks dished up uncomfortable reminders of the August tempest. Reporting ...