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News, Postbag, Published on 26/06/2016
» Re: "Deal with GT200 now", (PostBag, June 25).
Asia focus, Published on 16/11/2015
» John Micklethwait is a newspaper man seized by fear and hope for the future of journalism. To be sure, "newspaper man" is a bit of an anachronistic description for the new editor-in-chief at Bloomberg News, where no ink is spilled on paper. Across 325,000 Bloomberg terminals, headlines splash upon screens in seconds, bumping stale events much faster than one wraps fish with yesterday's page one.
AFP, Published on 11/08/2015
» HONG KONG - Asian shares were mixed on Tuesday, with Shanghai and Hong Kong boosted by news China's central bank is devaluing its currency while other regional markets fell.
AFP, Published on 06/08/2015
» HONG KONG - Asian stocks were mixed on Thursday, as gains on Wall Street drove trading in Tokyo but patchy US economic data fed wider uncertainty in the region.
Business, Published on 22/06/2015
» Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all? If you love fairy tales, you would probably say Snow White. But if you're a man who is in love, you might be inclined to disagree. After all, we're all entitled to our own opinion. And beauty is a particularly difficult quality to define. But how about stock exchanges? Which is the fairest exchange of them all? New York, London, Hong Kong and, of course, Singapore spring to mind. What do they all have in common? They are all considered international exchanges. Thailand, or more precisely the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), is not on the list. Should it be?
Published on 06/05/2015
» HONG KONG — Asian stocks lost steam on Wednesday, with most leading indexes in retreat after US markets slumped on worries about surging oil prices and growing tensions over the Greek debt crisis.
Published on 30/01/2015
» HONG KONG — Asian stock markets were mixed Friday, with Tokyo's main index rising after Japanese traders shrugged off data showing inflation slowing in December and household spending falling.
Published on 29/01/2015
» HONG KONG — Asian stock markets mostly fell on Thursday, largely on the back of declines in the US triggered by concerns over a strengthening dollar and falling oil prices.
Published on 22/12/2014
» HONG KONG — Asian markets rose in thin trade Monday ahead of the festive season, tracking cues from Wall Street where stocks surged in a Federal Reserve-fuelled "Santa Claus rally" last week.
Published on 10/12/2014
» HONG KONG — Asian markets were mixed Wednesday, with fresh fears about Greece and further losses in oil prices offset by a strong rebound in Shanghai, a day after suffering its worst loss in five years.