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Bulls take first quarter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... continue to rise. Even before the New Year worries over inflation percolated all around the world due to escalating commodity prices, in particular the spike in the prices of food and oil. This will prompt calls for central banks to end quantitative ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... their performance of manufacturing (PMI) index for March, and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) issues its index of commodity prices for March. In equities news, the case between Seven Group and Ten Network's chief executive-designate, James Warburton ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... highly indebted countries in the periphery that are already tightening fiscal expenditures. There's Australia's link to commodity prices... and China. The central bank majors are providing the liquidity that sends commodity prices higher and there's ...

Commodities rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
... markets, commodities have been knocked down by the recent increase in volatility but have just as quickly recovered. Commodity prices largely depend on rising demand - or more accurately, demand outstripping supply -- which, in turn, hinges on increasing ...

PineBridge enjoys strong inflows in EM debt

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... Canada, two big resource-driven markets. Mittal said that the Australian currency has been a strong beneficiary of the commodity demand in China but Latin America is a big supplier of commodities, too, yet their currencies have not participated fully ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... Jones Industrial Average added 0.56 per cent on Wednesday as industrial and mining companies were boosted by rising commodity prices amid expectations of high demand for Japanese reconstruction and fears over Middle East unrest. But gains eroded as higher ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... higher on Wednesday, led by industrial and mining companies as traders eyed the knock-on affects of higher metal and commodity demand and Japanese reconstruction. The Dow was dragged upward by aluminum giant Alcoa, which added over three per cent, and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... higher on Friday with world markets up overnight after a week of heavy losses due to the nuclear concerns in Japan, and commodity markets were also stronger. On the ASX 24 at 0745 AEDT, the March share price index futures contract was up 18 points at ...

Share plummet overplayed - fund managers

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... economic one," he added. In a clear sign of risk aversion, investors have been quick to sell off equities, commodities and commodity currencies in favour of fixed income assets. Shane Oliver, head of investment strategy and chief economist, AMP Capital ...

Ratings houses silent on Japan fund fallout

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... Australia and Canada led the FX decline while the dollar and the yen outperformed as traders reverted to a risk-off commodity dumping mentality in the FX markets. Tim Murphy, co-head of fund research at Morningstar, said the average super fund on their ...