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AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... Milan ended the day with a 0.98 per cent rise. The euro firmed to $US1.0865 from $US1.0823 late in New York on Thursday. HONG KONG - Shanghai and Tokyo shares were hit by profit-taking but most other Asian markets rose after a positive US lead as the ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... deficit-reduction target before next month's general election. The euro rose to $US1.0804 from $US1.0725 late in New York on Wednesday. HONG KONG - Asian markets have mostly risen with another poor reading of Chinese manufacturing lifting Shanghai on ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... per cent while Madrid shed 0.20 per cent. The euro slid to $US1.0728 compared with $US1.0735 late in New York on Tuesday. HONG KONG - Tokyo's Nikkei shares ended above 20,000 for the first time in 15 years as the country recorded its first trade surplus ...

The bad and the bad and the bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... anything but good? Remember all that rage not even too weeks ago - the one about Chinese investors moving the China bubble to Hong Kong? In an article about that published on 9 April, the Epoch Times taglined its article with, "The average Chinese retail ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... 2.17 per cent and Milan 2.40 per cent. The euro rose to $US1.0777 from $US1.0761 at the fixing late in New York on Thursday. HONG KONG - Equities in Shanghai extended their rally on hopes for new economy-boosting measures from China, but Hong Kong and ...

Tempo finds beta growth in Europe, Asia

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... into more aggressive markets." The manager has moved out of Switzerland, the UK or Sweden and into Spain, the Netherlands, Hong Kong and Singapore. Bracken attributed the change to the fact that those markets are starting to respond to quantitative easing ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... data stoked Beijing stimulus hopes while the European Central Bank (ECB) pledged to fully implement its stimulus measures. HONG KONG - Asian markets have finished higher on Thursday, with Shanghai rallying on hopes for further China stimulus while Japanese ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... 40 in Paris rose 0.70 per cent to 5,254.35 points. The euro slid to $US1.0613 from $US1.0654 late in New York on Tuesday. HONG KONG - Hong Kong's stock market ticked higher but Shanghai sank after a further slowdown in Chinese economic growth, while ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... cent to 998.70 pence, Antofagasta dropped 2.50 per cent to 722.00 pence and Rio Tinto shed 0.81 per cent to 2,814.00 pence. HONG KONG - Most Asia markets climbed on Monday, with Hong Kong advancing for an eighth straight session and Shanghai rallying ...

Go south young (China) man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... biblical gnashing of teeth - back then, back during the late years leading to the expiry of the United Kingdom's 99-lease on Hong Kong from China on 1 July 1997. In Wikipedia's words, "Many citizens were pessimistic towards the future of Hong Kong and ...