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More jobs, more jobless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
So what did you think? Was it good or bad? Good enough to keep the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) finger off the trigger for another month or something ominous that it would have no option but the fire? Was the "6202.0 - Labour Force, Australia ...

IOSCO recommends reforms to the $4.7tr MMF sector

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
An IOSCO review into the $4.7 trillion global money market fund sector has recommended further reforms to prevent a recurrence of the contagion crisis that fuelled the GFC in 2008. "Although money market funds (MMF) did not cause the crisis, their performance ...

Six year ban for mortgage broker

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... invest in a financial scheme. During this period he submitted nine loan applications to either Perpetual or to St George Bank which contained information that was false and misleading about the income and employment of the borrowers. "In one instance ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... In economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases Labour force data for September while Reserve Bank of Australia head of financial stability Luci Ellis delivers a speech to the Paul Wooley Centre for the Study of Capital Market ...

Woe R'Us

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... banks have included/increased the Australian dollar in their reserves of foreign exchange reserves - including the National Bank of Kazakhstan. If the Kazakhs are confident about Australia, why can't Australians?

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
The Australian stock market has fallen with broad-based declines as investors offload securities in response to a weak global economic outlook. At 1216 AEDT on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 18.6 points, or 0.41 per cent, at 4,486.7 ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... poor third-quarter earnings season. The IMF's gloomier outlook for 2012 and 2013 global growth came a day after the World Bank slashed its growth estimates for developing countries in East Asia and the Pacific. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down ...

Time to buy the bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
They just won't stop coming, do they? Yes them, the bad news. This time it came courtesy of the World Bank (WB). The WB went on a chopping spree - slashing its growth outlook for the Asia and the Pacific region to 7.2% this year and 7.6% in 2013 - down ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... December share price index futures contract was up six points at 4,485. In economic news on Tuesday, the National Australia Bank's monthly business survey for September is due out. Reserve Bank of Australia deputy governor Philip Lowe is scheduled to ...

Trading mistake forces Indian exchange crash

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... saw the exchange's Nifty index fall 920 points on Friday morning with shares in heavyweight financial stocks such as State Bank of India (SBI) and HDFC particularly hard hit, reported AAP. "The Nifty fall was on account of abnormal orders resulting in ...