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FT.com - Emerging Markets News
| Dec 05, 2008 |
Asia-Pacific shrugs off Wall Street sell off
Asia-Pacific shares edged higher, managing to shrug off a last-minute sell off in the US. However, gains were muted ahead of important employment data due out of the US
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| Dec 04, 2008 |
Asia-Pacific shares trade broadly lower
Statistics suggesting that Japanese companies cut capital spending last quarter at the fastest rate for six years has weighed on Asian markets
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| Dec 03, 2008 |
Qantas shares lead weak rally across Asia
Shares in the Australian carrier Qantas Airways, which is talking with British Airways about a merger, gained nearly ten per cent to help lead a weak rally across Asia Pacific
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| Dec 02, 2008 |
Asia falls sharply, tracking Wall Street lower
Shares across Asia fell sharply tracking Wall Street's drop overnight by nearly nine per cent as an influential group of economists declared that the US was in recession.
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| Dec 01, 2008 |
Eastern promise
Ask Marcus Svedberg, chief economist at East Capital answered reader's questions on eastern Europe after the recent market and economic turbulence on Monday, December 1.
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| Dec 01, 2008 |
Economic worries weigh on Asian markets
Asia Pacific stock markets opened the week's trading broadly lower as economic worries deepened
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| Nov 28, 2008 |
India opens weakly lower after closure
Indian shares opened lower as trading resumed for the first time since the terrorist attacks on the financial capital Mumbai that left more than 100 people dead
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| Nov 27, 2008 |
Asian stocks buoyed by China rate cut
Asian stocks reported a fifth day in row of gains led by Shanghai, which rose as much as 6.6 per cent at one point, as investors welcomed China's biggest interest rate cut in more than a decade
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| Nov 27, 2008 |
Fitch develops CDS liquidity score
Score will help banks identify their exposure to the most liquid and least liquid assets, and strengthen their liquidity risk management procedures
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| Nov 26, 2008 |
Steelmakers gain on Asia-Pacific markets
Steelmakers rose as the threat disappeared of a combined BHP-Rio dominating iron ore production and raising prices further – they have already nearly doubled this year
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| Nov 26, 2008 |
Dubai assures on debt pile
A Dubai fund, plans to pay off an entire $500m loan as the government steps up its attempt to assuage investor concerns about its $80bn debt pile
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| Nov 25, 2008 |
Rampant yen continues to climb
The yen advanced this week as further turmoil on global asset markets pushed investors towards the haven of the low-yielding currency.
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| Nov 25, 2008 |
Asia Pacific markets rise on Citigroup rescue
Asia Pacific shares rose thanks to Wall Street's rally overnight in relief at the Citibank's $300bn bailout. Oil's nine per cent surge in New York trading and firmer commodity prices also boosted energy and mining stocks
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| Nov 24, 2008 |
View of the Day: Chinese consumers
The anxiety gripping consumers around the world is spreading to China, says Jing Ulrich at JPMorgan
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| Nov 24, 2008 |
Citigroup bail out fails to cheer Asia banks
Financials fell across the Asia-Pacific region despite news of Citigroup's US government guarantee of $306bn of problem assets for the ailing bank
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| Nov 21, 2008 |
Asia stocks bounce off five-year lows
Waves of selling in global stock markets crashed into Asia, with gains from the region's 5-year bull run now erased, and investors seen camping out in government bonds and cash for the rest of the year
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| Nov 20, 2008 |
Emerging markets hit by flight from risk
Emerging markets and their currencies sold off after a downward shift in risk appetite drove wary foreign investors into repatriating their funds
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| Nov 20, 2008 |
Asian shares fall as economic gloom deepens
Japanese shares led Asia-Pacific markets lower as anxieties about the US economy and the global outlook heightened amid worsening data and the prospects for US carmakers
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| Nov 19, 2008 |
Asian shares trade lower as worries persist
Chinese stocks fought off the gloom enveloping the rest of the region amid growing hopes that Beijing would soon introduce a fuel tax that would help the profit margins of refining companies
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| Nov 18, 2008 |
Asian shares follow Wall Street lower
Asia-Pacific shares followed Wall Street lower as significant job cuts, such as Citigroup's shedding of 52,000 positions, added to the bleak economic outlook
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