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Inflation not currency worrying the RBA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
... closer to lifting them than they were to lowering them. Jaw boning heat had been building following pleas from the manufacturing sector after last month's pivotal announcements that steel jobs were no longer sustainable with the AUD at US$1.06 after ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
... of 1.929 per cent before bouncing back. Bond yields and prices move in opposite directions. The ISM index of non-manufacturing activity rose to 53.3 per cent last month, up from 52.7 per cent in July. Any level above 50 indicates growth. Bank stocks ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... tumbled 33.42 points (1.30 per cent) to close at 2,546.04. Wall Street enjoyed an early rally after a report on US manufacturing beat expectations, but the gains faded and markets went into the red amid concern over Friday's data on US nonfarm payrolls ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... solid, following recent gains in offshore markets. US stocks gained on Wednesday, boosted by better-than-expected manufacturing data manufacturing in the country's industrial heartland. "We're seeing a bit of consistency and stability emerging in offshore ...

Ideas count and Australia is up to 69,000

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... This relative performance illustrates why national complaints over our high dollar or our supposedly struggling manufacturing sector count for not much if we can't generate the new ideas that will generate new businesses. China having 248,000 patent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... the June quarter and the retail trade for July data. The Australian Industry Group/Pricewaterhouse performance of manufacturing (PMI) index for August is released. Meanwhile, the Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM) to issue $1 billion of ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... said investors were holding back ahead of key data releases due out of the US later this week - a private sector manufacturing report and the latest labour force numbers. Ms Chan said offshore turnover had also been very light in recent days, as Hurricane ...

Manufacturing's Gerry Harvey moment

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
Manufacturing has just had it's Gerry Harvey moment and no amount of pro-protectionist inquiries is going to help it wind back the clock to the lazy Australian economic daze of the 1950s. In January famed business entrepreneur Gerry Harvey fronted a ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2011
... economic data due out later this week, including domestic retail sales figures and capital expenditure, Chinese Manufacturing PMI and US jobs data. Mr Waterer said any positive data released this week, locally or abroad, should see expectations of forthcoming ...

Perpetual posts results, buy-back option

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... initiatives and investments were proving successful including the closure of its Dublin-based International Share funds manufacturing capability and the sale of the smartsuper SMSF administration business. "We have made significant progress with the ...