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Anticipatory and moderate adjustments had become necessary

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... times -- changed from 'Wen gets what Wen wants when Wen wants it' when Li Kequiang took over China's premiership from Wen Jiabao on 13 March 2013 -- on this space before. For China is not a democracy where monetary and fiscal authorities set policy and ...

Li gets what Li likes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... similar changes at the top that transpired in China early this year. Xi Jinping and Li Kequiang replaced Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao as President and Prime Minister of China, respectively in the middle of March. Is it just me or did anyone else notice that ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... house prices. But eyes were on China's National People's Congress (NPC), which opened Tuesday with outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao saying the government would target growth of 7.5 per cent for the world's number two economy in 2013 and 3.5 per cent inflation. ...

You did this! No, you did!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
... No one's sure how the Xi-Jinping/Li Keqiang tandem would fare compared with Batman and Robin, sorry, Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao in terms of the direction for the Chinese economy. But China is about the preservation of the legacy of its ancestors - it's ...

Markets await promising China leadership change

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2012
... Beijing today to elect successors to the Party's two most powerful figures, General Secretary Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao. According to Chan, manager of the Threadneedle China Opportunities fund, the sweeping overhaul of China's leadership should ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
... also lifted by more upbeat US data and hopes for the eurozone. Soothing comments on the economy from Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Wednesday also provided support, while dealers looked ahead to a European Union summit set to begin later on Thursday. ...

Wen's visible hand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
... didn't we, Virginia? We've told them that what Wen wants, Wen gets, when Wen likes. Earlier this year, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao lowered the government's growth target from 8.0% to 7.5%. We never doubted for a single minute that this would be achieved... ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
... growth. Investors are nervous ahead of the release of key Chinese economic indicators this week, with comments by Premier Wen Jiabao at the weekend adding to the concerns, which overshadowed positive news in the form of a sharp slowdown in inflation. ...

Missed the bottom?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2012
... brinkmanship, despite the game of chicken. On this score, one power that is - China - could soon be doing its part with Premier Wen Jiabao announcing that, "We should continue to implement a proactive fiscal policy and a prudent monetary policy while ...

Dip buyers buy the dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... the opposite happening in Australia. This makes me wonder if Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan sometimes wishes he were Wen Jiabao so that banks would do as he says - or heads will roll.
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