Category: FinanceAsia
Asia Roundup: Higher as US dollar nears 100 yen
Asian markets mostly climbed yesterday, Monday April 22 2013 with Tokyo surging as the dollar pushes back towards the 100 yen mark after the G20 cautiously endorsed the Bank [...]
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Asian markets up with Nikkei nearing 5-year high
Asian markets up with Nikkei nearing 5-year high as yen slides Asian markets traded higher Monday, with Tokyo stock markets heading close to a five-year high after a meeting [...]
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Nikkei nudges five-year record high, dollar/yen eyes 100
Japanese shares powered to nearly 5-year highs and determined sellers just failed to breach the symbolic 100 yen/dollar level on Monday, even though the Bank of Japan’s [...]
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Seoul shares higher as techs rebound, LG Display up before results
South Korean shares closed higher on Monday as techs rebounded ahead of earnings reports, which will kick off with LG Display later in the afternoon. The Korea Composite [...]
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FOREX-Yen bears in driving seat after G20, USD/JPY on course to take out 100
The yen began the week on a shaky footing on Monday, with the dollar on track to take out the elusive 100 level, after the Group of 20 countries refrained from criticising [...]
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China brokerages in debt-selling rush to boost leverage
Chinese brokerages have borrowed nearly $13 billion so far this year by issuing debt to fund expansion after authorities opened doors to lucrative but riskier businesses, a [...]
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AsianBondsOnline News Highlights – Week of 15 – 19 April 2013
Consumer price inflation in Malaysia inched upward to 1.6% y-o-y in March from 1.5% in February, due to increases in food prices. Producer prices in the Republic of Korea [...]
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Fresh financial crisis case against S&P in Australia
Lawyers who won a landmark case in Australia against Standard & Poor’s over financial products that collapsed ahead of the financial crisis launched a new action [...]
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APEC warns against currency devaluations, property bubble
Asia Pacific economies must refrain from competitive currency devaluations and are vulnerable to speculative buying in the housing market, the APEC grouping’s research [...]
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UN tips faster Asian growth, urges poverty action
Asia-Pacific growth will edge up this year on the back of a recovery in theUSand emerging nations, a UN study said Thursday, but it urged governments to take bolder steps to [...]
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Asia leads as world’s clean energy investment sags
China and Japan stepped up spending last year in renewable energy but overall global investment declined due to economic and policy uncertainties in the West, a study said [...]
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Chinese bank ICBC tops Forbes Global 2000 list
Chinese bank ICBC knocked US oil giant ExxonMobil from its perch as the world’s biggest public company Wednesday, ranking number-one for the first time on the Forbes [...]
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Asia Roundup: Mixed after huge sell-off on Wall St
Asian shares were mixed yesterday, Tuesday April 16 2013 with earlier losses pared after a huge sell-off on Wall Street, while traders were spooked by a double bombing that [...]
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IMF sees mixed Asian outlook for 2013
The IMF painted a mixed picture for Asia’s top economies on Tuesday, trimming its Chinese growth forecasts but predicting Japan’s fiscal stimulus will help end [...]
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Organised crime worth $90b a year in East Asia
Organised crime gangs dealing in fake goods, drugs, human trafficking, and the illicit wildlife trade earn nearly $90 billion annually in East Asia and the Pacific, a UN [...]
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