Vice-Premier Wang Yang's son-in-law recently launched a Hong Kong-based hedge fund focused on mainland equities, joining a growing number of young family members of top officials who have set up...
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14 Jun 2013
The Nikkei 225 stock index dived 6.35 per cent to finish at 12,445.38 yesterday, erasing almost all its gains since the Bank of Japan unveiled a plan on April 4 to double the size of the country's...
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11 Jun 2013
Investment firm Baring Asset Management is buying more Japanese equities as it prepares for another rally in the market after its recent sell-off.
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24 May 2013
The deteriorating outlook on the mainland sent Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average slumping 7.3 per cent, registering the deepest loss since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The Hang Seng Index...
3:47AM
20 May 2013
"Sell in May and go away." Will this be the year that the old investment adage, arising from a long-run statistical underperformance of stocks from May to October versus the period from November...
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17 May 2013
More than half of those contacted said the US will be among the markets offering the best returns over the next year, a 15-point jump from the last poll in January and the highest rating for any...
4:06AM
Asian stocks closed near a five-year high yesterday, tracking a strong performance in the United States market and buoyed by better-than-expected home sales in the world's largest economy, amid...
4:27AM
The mainland economy is five times as big as it was 12 years ago but Shanghai's stock market has gone nowhere amid barriers to profitability.
4:28AM
It's now official. Even monkeys can beat the stock market index. Cass Business School researchers in London simulated 10 million portfolios of US stocks selected at random.
3:31AM
Shares in drug manufacturers, steelmakers and construction firms jumped in Hong Kong and Shanghai yesterday as investors bet medical and rebuilding demand will rise after an earthquake in Sichuan...
4:45AM
A drop in gold prices also weighed on the market, dragging down mining shares. Zijin Mining, the country's biggest gold miner, fell 7.2 per cent to HK$2.33. Spot gold prices fell up to 5 per cent...
1:17PM
One fine day in March I checked the price of my favourite stock, Haitong Securities, a brokerage. It was taking a dive, which prompted me to check for news about the firm.
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