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Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... trend of around 3.25 per cent. IG market strategist Evan Lucas said initial market reaction to the GDP (gross domestic product) figures was positive but then tapered off. "It (the headline GDP figure) is a good read but there are questions underlying ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... at 5,492. In economic news on Wednesday, the bureau of statistics releases national accounts, including gross domestic product for the March quarter. The bureau also releases overseas arrivals and departures numbers for April. The Australian Industry ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
The Australian share market has opened lower after US markets came off record highs. The fall in US shares had driven the Australian market lower, although the federal budget may also be hurting stocks, Lonsec equities research general manager Bill ...

International media question Australia's "austerity budget"

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... well" and added that "this is not Greece, Portugal or Spain." Australia's budget deficit is about 3% of its gross domestic product (GDP), public debt is less than 20% of GDP and unemployment is 5.8%. "You look around you here and it doesn't feel like ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... 9,603.23 points and in Paris the CAC 40 shed 0.23 per cent to 4,487.39. The US Commerce Department said gross domestic product (GDP) rose just 0.1 per cent in the first quarter, well below the 1.0 per cent rise analysts expected. The euro rallied to ...

Japan's 1997 deja vu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... to A¥1.446 trillion. In so much as net exports - exports minus imports - figures in the calculation of gross domestic product (GDP), this is a negative for overall economic growth. Similarly, while it appears that the Japanese government and the BOJ's ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
... central bank's view that recent weakness was largely due to bad winter weather. Data also showed that China's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 7.4 per cent in the first three months of the year, higher than the market forecast of 7.3 per cent. Locally ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... despite BHP Billiton announcing an upbeat production report. Most investors are hanging out for China's gross domestic product (GDP) numbers, due out later on Wednesday, Invast Securities chief market analyst Peter Esho said. "The market is mildly higher ...

Australian budget to blow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... have any chance of bringing gross debt down by 70 per cent to a "safer level" equal to 4.7 per cent of gross domestic product". And according to 'The Australian", "Australia will need massive budget savings of about $90 billion if it is to stabilise ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases December quarter national accounts data including gross domestic product, while the Australian Industry Group Australian Performance of Services Index (PSI) for February is due out. Meanwhile, Qantas ...