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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2007
The Australian dollar was higher at noon, holding firmly above the 87 US cent mark as demand for high yielding currencies continued to provide support, amid further US dollar weakness. At 1200 AEST, the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.8706/11 ...

Economic round-up: Creaming cheese exports

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2007
With our Aussie dollar flirting around the US86c mark, it's keeping a lid on inflation but exporters, except those sending cream cheese to Korea, are really feeling the bite. Our dollar's strength is positively impacting imports, and price increases ...

Check pay before shifting OS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2007
Before taking that overseas job offer Australian would-be expats need to carefully weigh up whether the pay jump is worth the move. Research just released by Mercer reveals that for the second year running Moscow is the world's most expensive city for ...

Economic round-up: Chinese whispers and inflation rumbles

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
Comments by former US Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, over China's "unsustainable" market weighed heavily on the Australian dollar yesterday, while the OECD flagged a threat to our inflation. On Wednesday Dr Greenspan, speaking by satellite ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2007
The Australian dollar was stronger at noon after being driven higher in early trade by offshore currency movements. At 1200 AEST, the domestic unit was trading at $US0.8226/31, down from yesterday's close of 0.8212/13. It traded between a low of $US0.8216 ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
Lower commodity prices drove the Australian sharemarket lower at midday, with the big miners losing ground. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 37 points at 6308.1, while the all ordinaries lost 35.2 points to 6311.5. On the Sydney ...

Surging dollar prompts mixed views on fall-out

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2007
Nipping at the heels of its 1990 high against the US dollar, the Australian dollar, climbing steadily since early March, has reached a 17-year peak overnight on Tuesday of $0.8365. Although cyclicals such as resources, materials and energy come out ...

US pension funds no longer the big boys

In 2000, US pension funds dominated the top 20 list of the largest pension funds in the world but a new study has found that in 2005, Asian and European pension funds have taken over. The 2005 joint survey by Watson Wyatt and US publication Pensions ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open higher following the positive US lead and robust metal prices. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was up 28 points at 5,904. Today, the Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

Two-thirds of RMBS bonds going to overseas investors

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2007
More than two-thirds of the $5.9 billion of mortgage backed securities the Commonwealth Bank plans to issue in the next couple of weeks will go into the portfolios of offshore investors. Aussie dollar securities are in demand overseas, especially since ...