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Bad tidings for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... deciding where the floor is on the on-going oil price slide, more bad tidings our way came. There was the Shanghai Composite Index dropping by a whopping 5.4% -- and taking most Asian equity markets down with it - on reports that China would no longer ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... in Chinese industrial profits. Coming in at its highest close in more than three years, the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index gained 1.00 per cent, or 26.15 points, to 2,630.49 on turnover of 339.0 billion yuan ($55.2 billion). It was the exchange's ...

Shanghai-HK Connect connects China to the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
hanghai and Hong Kong's equity markets stood out yesterday. The Shanghai composite index surged by 2.3% and the Hang Seng index gained more than 0.8% despite renewed anxiety over a China slowdown ignited by price data showing that consumer price inflation ...

China's winning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... points lower than the actual one year lending rate." Must be why investors are heading back to China. The Shanghai Composite Index's up by 5.1% this year to date and the yuan's reversing its decline against the greenback -- it's currently trading at ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... Friday on selective buying of property shares and technology firms, dealers said. In China the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.66 per cent, or 13.28 points, to 2,034.57 on turnover of 51.5 billion yuan ($A8.98 billion). The index added 0.40 ...

Global healing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... convincing -- Dow up by 0.06% and the S&P 500 by 0.24% -- more so Europe's - Stoxx 50 index up 0.02%. China's Shanghai Composite index is not convinced at all -- down 0.18%. What gives? What gives is that investors don't know. This, at least, is the ...

Just jokin' Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... days and the Nikkei-225 index increased by 0.5% after losing 1.37%. What's interesting is that China's Shanghai Composite index fell by 0.2% after jumping by 0.9% on the Russo/Ukraine tension. Fell free to form your own conclusions. I digress. While ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... much-watched index on Thursday showed Chinese manufacturing activity at a seven-month low. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index dropped 1.17 per cent, or 25.09 points, to close at 2,113.69 and the Shenzhen Composite Index, which tracks stocks on China's ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... Sydney barely edged up, gaining 4.1 points to 5,412.3. Chinese shares also lost ground, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index ending down 0.18 per cent, or 3.77 points, to 2,138.78. The Shenzhen Composite Index, which tracks stocks on China's second ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... 3.98 points, to 1,942.93, while Sydney gained 0.29 per cent, or 15.4 points, to 5,408.2. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index added 1.11 per cent, or 23.48 points, to 2,142.55 and the Shenzhen Composite Index - which tracks stocks on China's second ...