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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
... and Swiss stocks were up 0.42 per cent but Milan fell 0.26 per cent. HONG KONG - Asian shares were mixed on Tuesday with Tokyo surging ahead on the back of a rally by the Dow, while reduced tensions in Egypt cooled oil prices. Tokyo's Nikkei ended the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
... gave a muddy picture of the state of the world's biggest economy, while concerns over Egypt pushed oil back above $100. Tokyo ended 0.46 per cent, or 48.52 points, higher at 10,592.04 and Seoul added 0.47 per cent, or 9.71 points, to 2,081.74. Hong Kong ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
... dollars, compared with 1.3808 dollars late in New York on Wednesday. HONG KONG - Renewed concerns at unrest in Egypt hit Tokyo shares and sent oil prices higher on Thursday, with most markets in Asia closed for Lunar New Year holidays. Tokyo ended 0.25 ...

That sinking feeling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2010

Best house in the slums

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
... Shanghai Composite's 13.3 per cent drop. I'm sure everybody understands why the Japanese and Chinese bourses are on the slide. Tokyo's still battling deflation - that scourge of "spending now" and "investing now". Why "buy now" when you can get better ...

Liquidnet taps Malaysian equities

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... five continents. The firm is headquartered in New York with offices in Boston, London, San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney and Singapore.

The hidden costs hurting returns

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
... can detract almost as much from member's returns. John Moore, head of implementation services at Russell Investments in Tokyo told Financial Standard that hidden implementation costs for services such as execution and currency hedging could easily equate ...

The good smoke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
... more "scientific" accounting. According to Bloomberg, "Naoko Ogata, a senior researcher at the Japan Research Institute, a Tokyo-based think tank, predicts last-minute purchasing of cigarettes this month will boost consumer spending in the quarter ending ...

Competing to devalue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... the Bank of Japan intervening in the currency market because a higher yen is exacerbating Japan's economic malaise. But Tokyo's gains is America's loss. Yen depreciates, US dollar rises. Tokyo sells more of its products abroad, America sells less. Japan ...

Singapore to win asset mgmt race: report

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
Singapore is on track to become one of the biggest asset management hubs in the world by 2025 - usurping Tokyo and Boston. According to the See the Future report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, which maps the world's sectors growth including asset management ...