October was A Down Month, Breaking The Rebound
Those fears now have a financial cost, as we saw in markets in Europe and the US on Friday. Asia was ahead, but Europe and the Americas then saw big falls. Europe's losses accelerated,...
Australasian Investment Review -
Monday November 2, 2009, 8:35 am
Platinum Group's Take On Recovery
Platinum Capital is one of the country's more successful funds managers specialising in offshore investments, especially in Asia. Its been hit, as so many other offshore fund managers have, by the...
Australasian Investment Review -
Friday October 30, 2009, 8:05 am
Aussie firms ink $3b contracts in China
Australian businesses have signed $US3.1 billion ($A3.38 billion) worth of contracts for projects in Guangdong, as the Chinese province's governor says there are plenty more deals to be...
AAP -
Tuesday October 27, 2009, 10:11 pm
Rusal hit by 6 billion dollar loss in 2008: report
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian aluminum giant UC Rusal suffered a six billion dollar loss in 2008 due the global economic crisis, according to a presentation ahead of its planned share listing in Hong Kong...
AFP Finance News -
Monday October 26, 2009, 6:40 pm
Markets 2: A Surprise Fall Friday, We Will Follow
Equities and other financial markets will start the week cautiously after Friday's nasty little fall in the US and rise in interest rates. Ten year bond yields rose 0.08% to 3.49% and yields on...
Australasian Investment Review -
Monday October 26, 2009, 8:47 am
Markets Hit Highs
Last week shares in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Russia, Europe, London, Brazil and New York all hit fresh highs that were in most cases, the best for the past...
Australasian Investment Review -
Monday October 19, 2009, 8:44 am
More Figures Confirm China's Economic Bounce
More good news from China as the recovery gathers pace. In fact the rebound in the economy, thanks to the $US585 billion stimulus package, is maturing well, with imports telling us domestic...
Australasian Investment Review -
Friday October 16, 2009, 8:40 am
Markets Watching US Figures
Markets finished solidly on Saturday morning, our time, with Wall Street reaching new 2009 highs. American markets had their best weekly gains since July and ended a two-week losing...
Australasian Investment Review -
Monday October 12, 2009, 8:41 am
Gold Up, But The US Dollar Is Not That Weak
Gold's rally this year to numerous record highs shows investors remain unconvinced that the economic recovery in the US, Europe, Japan and other major economies won't send inflation...
Australasian Investment Review -
Friday October 9, 2009, 8:25 am
ASX To Go Green Trading
Later this year we will be able to trade in renewable energy futures and options contracts on the ASX, so if you are green and numerate (as people at Macquarie Bank undoubtedly are) there's...
Australasian Investment Review -
Thursday October 8, 2009, 8:13 am
HSBC in advanced talks on buying RBS Asia assets
HONG KONG (AFP) - HSBC is in advanced talks to buy the Asian retail and commercial banking assets of Royal Bank of Scotland as a Standard Chartered bid for the lender has stalled over the price, a...
AFP Finance News -
Wednesday October 7, 2009, 11:51 pm
