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Australia a priority for HSBC despite job cuts

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... confirmed that it wants to reduce its risk weighted assets by 25%. To achieve that, it will sell its operations in Turkey and Brazil, although it will maintain a presence in the latter to serve large corporate clients with respect to their international ...

Van Eck goes local on EM fixed income

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... said. "There's not a generic overall blessing of all local currency markets. A lot of them don't seem to make sense, but Brazil, Zambia, South Africa, and Colombia do pay high interest rates and we think they're too high." "What Brazil is doing is some ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
The share market is back in positive territory as iron ore production news boosts the big miners and revived expectations of an interest rate cut help the banks. The miners are the strongest performers after Brazilian giant Vale suggested it might take ...

IMF predicts drop in foreign earnings

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... decline in 2015 is expected for iron ore, which has seen the greatest increase in production capacity from Australia and Brazil. The IMF also predicts Australia's unemployment rate will rise to 6.4% in 2016, up from 6.2% in 2015.

Emerging markets a no go in 2015

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... retreated to safe havens in developed markets. In the past year there were heavy losses for equities in key regions such as Brazil and Russia according to Legg Mason. The company said the MSCI EM Index fell almost 20% in the fourth quarter of 2014, and ...

The real problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... in the third quarter of last year and by 0.8% in the second - rising inflation in the country prevents it from doing so. Brazil's economic outlook is bogged down by increased political uncertainty (corruption scandal) - despite President Dilma Rousseff's ...

Investment professionals depressed over future employment

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... Australian investment professionals expect employment prospects to improve. This means that "we're out-gloomed only by Brazil (14%), Switzerland (13%) and Germany (12%)," CFA Society of Sydney president Anthony Serhan said. The cheerier end of the spectrum ...

ASX will cut clearing fees if monopoly extended

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... approximately $6.8 million per annum. ASX has defended the single infrastructure by saying the model is common in Canada, the US, Brazil and Asia - though not in Europe. It claims the model is more efficient and more transparent than the alternatives ...

Ruble trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... European Central Bank (ECB) wants to lessen the threat of deflation... but not Russia. For Russia, like its BRIC amigo - Brazil - faces stagflation. Growth in Russia's economy slowed to a mere 0.2% in the year to the third quarter (from 2.0% at the end ...

Real stagflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... The Bovespa index dropped by 2.8%. Rightly or wrongly, the disappointment over the election outcome is understandable. Brazil's economy has slowed and is now in recession since Rousseff assumed the presidency in January 2011, inflation has risen and ...