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It's all about China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
... rates unchanged at 3 per cent yesterday because of signs that the global economy is stabilising and 'this is clearest in China.' The US sends its top moneyman to China to persuade it to keep the money flowing the way of the US. China made its presence ...

Net tightens on executive pay

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... independent directors. Other countries are already taking steps to curb excessive spending on exec pay. The Ministry of Finance in China for instance has ordered all state-owned financial institutions to cap pay for top executives at 90 percent of the ...

New chapter for DST Global Solutions

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... solutions, a service that the local arm haven't provided before. Fund managers and other wholesale investors with a presence in China will also benefit from the group's technology developments for the region. DST Global recently won a mandate from CLAMC ...

China's smoking gun

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
... government should spend GFC stimulus money to pump prime the economy, wait until you hear what they are arguing about in China. China is one of the last bastions of publicly acceptable cigarette smoking where 56 per cent of males still regularly smoke. ...

They will, they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... markets are cheering. Wall Street staged another rally last night on better-than-expected US housing data and a rise in China's purchasing managers index above 50 - indicating that manufacturing there is once again expanding. They will. Those betting ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... closed on Monday on a national holiday. HONG KONG - Hong Kong share prices closed 5.54 per cent higher on Monday, as gains in China stocks boosted hopes of a recovery in the mainland economy. The benchmark Hang Seng Index gained 860.06 points to close ...

May sell or May stay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2009
... that showed the return of the American consumer in the March quarter. And before this, strengthening economic indicators in China. Well yes, we know of this already. However, yesterday's releases showed that Japan too is responding to these improvements ...

IMF and Swan riding on doom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... investment has surged by 30 per cent and retail spending there jumped by around 16 per cent from a year prior. House sales in China soared by 36 per cent in the year to March. These good news have prompted many analysts to upgrade their China growth ...

China caps executive pay

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... economies could also look to the Asian tiger to solve the problem of excessive executive pay. The Ministry of Finance in China has ordered all state-owned financial institutions to cap pay for top executives at 90 percent of the level they received in ...

Global debt volumes jump one-third

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... issuance grew only 22 per cent. Asia's debt was raised through 155 issues in Japan, 104 in Australia, 205 in South Korea, 59 in China and 54 in India. While India and China had almost the same number of issues, China raised three times as much at $US ...