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Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... August and September, the Japanese equity market remains an outperformer. From January through to yesterday, 21 October, the Nikkei-225 index has risen by 6.3%. While down from the 19.4% return it achieved through to late-July, it's still in front of ...

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... KLCI, PSEi - or in a bear market -- Hang Seng - or highly volatile - Shanghai Composite - or down big time last week - Nikkei-225, Kospi, S&P/TSX composite. Yes Virginia, the bears came out of hibernation in full force. There was no place to hide, everywhere ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... Pearson which announced it was selling its flagship business daily the Financial Times to Japanese digital media group Nikkei. The euro firmed to $US1.0966 from $US1.0926 late in New York on Wednesday, as Greece took another step closer to securing a ...

Greece, China damage global hedge fund returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... Latin American hedge funds emerged as top performer in June and they were up 0.39% and 0.29% respectively. Even if the Nikkei 225 was experiencing volatility as a consequence of the correction in the Chinese stock market, Japanese managers posted positive ...

From Greece's frying pan into China's fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... markets suffering large losses on the same day, punctuated by the 5.8% slump in the Hang Seng Index, the 3.1% drop in the Nikkei and the 2% fall in the ASX 200 index. The "fear" of contagion springs from the extrapolation that should China's stock market ...

Stirred but not shaken

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... in Europe (the epicentre of the Greek tragi-comedy), the Stoxx 600 "plunged" by 1.2% and the FTSE-100 was off 0.8%; the Nikkei-225 finished off by 2.1% - and bond yields dropped, marginally, the first trading day after Greece went from teetering on the ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... 0.69 per cent, or 190.75 points to close at 27,657.47. Dealers moved out of Japanese equities for a second day after the Nikkei posted its 12th straight session of gains on Monday - its longest rally since 1988 at the height of the country's stock market ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... near-seven per cent slump over Thursday and Friday. Tokyo eased 0.13 per cent, or 26.68 points, to 20,543.19, ending the Nikkei's best winning streak since a 13-day run in 1988 at the height of Japan's stock market bubble. Shanghai gained 1.69 per cent ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... per cent, or 172.97 points, to 27,597.16. Singapore, Wellington and Bangkok were closed for public holidays. In Tokyo the Nikkei reversed initial losses caused by profit-taking as investors bet on the Bank of Japan announcing more monetary easing, while ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... negotiations, US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told reporters after the meeting wrapped up on Friday. HONG KONG - Japan's Nikkei has chalked up an eleventh straight gain with the yen sitting around 12-year lows against the dollar. Shanghai, meanwhile ...