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Iron ore's ups and downs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017
... iron ore prices. The minutes of the RBA's 5 September Board meeting revealed members' discussion about "the influence of China on the global iron ore and steel markets more generally" and their expectations for iron ore prices "to fall in the period ...

Financial Standard journalist recognised in press awards

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2017
... from Institutional Investor for two news stories: a profile piece on Peter Ma Mingzhe, the chairman and chief executive of China's Ping An Insurance; and a story on the views of several institutional investors about the rise of retail giant Alibaba. ...

Aussie fintechs among world's best

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2017
... interest from investors in business models and management teams that are seeking to radically change the industry paradigm." China's fintechs (Ant Financial, ZhongAn and Qudian) took the top three places on the list, followed by the US (Oscar and Avant) ...

Deutsche AM maps impact of climate risk

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2017
... vulnerable - five out of six people occupying the highest climate risk zones globally live in Asia, while 145 million people in China are living on land threatened by rising seas.

Less liquidity to lessen risk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2017
Fresh data out of China suggests that the central government and the central bank's efforts to reduce liquidity in the system are starting to have an impact. China's M2 money supply went up by 8.8% in the year to October after rising by 9.2% in the ...

Aussie fintech usage surges

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
... Australia placed well ahead of financial hubs such as Hong Kong (11th), Singapore (17th) and the US (10th), but sat behind China, India, Brazil and the UK. The report also showed Australians are increasingly shunning traditional financial services providers. ...

China's inflation lift indicates strong demand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
Assessed in tandem with the previous day's report of a narrowing in China's international trade surplus in October, the latest update on the country's inflation indicates the central government's progress towards rebalancing the economy. China's CPI ...

China trade deficit with Australia widens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2017
Timely or well-timed but the release of China's trade balance just as US President Trump lands in the Middle Kingdom should help partly assuage Donald's displeasure with the US-China trade imbalance. China's trade surplus contracted sharply to US$38.2 ...

China poised for asset management boom

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2017
China is forecast to become the second largest asset management market globally by 2019, sitting just behind the US, according to Casey Quirk. The consultancy firm also anticipates China will attract half of the industry's new asset flows in two years' ...

Beyond 6000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2017
... high of 5908.08 points that year. The global financial crisis, the European sovereign debt crisis, the Arab spring, and China's slowdown (which battered Australia's mining sector) prevented the index from revisiting this level over the next seven years. ...