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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... first-section shares slipped 0.58 per cent, or 6.76 points, to 1158.27. Markets in China, Hong Kong, South Korea, India, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan and Singapore were all closed on Wednesday for the May Day holiday. WELLINGTON - The ...

Former Hunter Hall managers gather new FUM in Morphic

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... of its first product, the Morphic Global Opportunities Fund, which invests in assets in the United States, Japan, Philippines and India. "There will be times where we think we can find a lot of good opportunities in a country but we see we are overexposed ...

Brazilian CB might need to stop shaving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
... down by 6.6% over the same period. Compare this with the 13.8% rally in the stock market of Asia's rising star, the Philippines. Perhaps it's time the Philippines replace Brazil in the BRICs grouping. But then this would spell rude. Brazil's stock market ...

Quality of Spain and Poland belies credit rating

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
... a poor S&P long-term rating and gloomy economic prospects. The top ESG underweights for emerging markets were the Philippines, Colombia and Indonesia. For developed markets, Japan was the largest underweight largely due to governance issues, while sovereigns ...

On positive contagion, reflation and the great rotation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... like, it's the positive kind. Recent reports suggest that Asia should be growing stronger than expected this year. The Philippines and Taiwan just reported better than forecasts December quarter GDP growth and Singapore posting the lowest unemployment ...

Time to fear?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
... boosted by foreign - portfolio and direct - investment into the country. In Asia, latest data show the economies of the Philippines and Taiwan expanding by more than expected - 6.8% and 3.4%, respectively - in the December quarter. And in Singapore ...

Australian pay rate growth underperforms Asia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... In particular they expect pay rate jumps to be 13% in Vietnam, 11% in Indonesia and India, 10% in China, 8% in the Philippines and 6% in Malaysia. But unless surveys like this take even basic measures like inflation into account they just fuel misunderstandings ...

Corporate Asian bonds on fire: HSBC

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
... to expected maintain rapid growth in years to come, according to HSBC Global Research. While both Thailand and the Philippines have witnessed rapid growth over the past year, HSBC research attributes the vast chunk of the growth in bonds to China with ...

Diamond in the region

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... merry way. No, it's not China - although economic indicators have been improving there too. That Asian country is the Philippines - the land of my birth. Yes, I'm half Chinese, half Filipino and now a 100% Australian. Lucky 'ey? The way these three economies ...

New Australian CEO for HSBC

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
Tony Cripps, current chief executive officer of HSBC in the Philippines, will replace Paulo Maia as the bank's chief executive officer in Australia. Cripps will take the reins from 24 December this year, with Maia departing for the role of president ...