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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
... euphoria over stronger-than-expected economic growth faded and concerns rose over the staying power of recovery from recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 249.85 points, or 2.51 per cent, to settle at 9,712.73. The tech-heavy Nasdaq skidded ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2009
... domestic product rose at an annual rate of 3.5 per cent in the third quarter was taken as the surest sign yet that the recession in the US has ended, even though problems such as high unemployment and weak consumer spending persist. The key Dow Jones ...

Back on the road again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2009
... reborn, growing by a better-than-expected 3.5 per cent annualised in the third quarter. Note that I didn't say out of recession. The National Bureau of Economic Statistics (NBER) - the people who tells us when US recessions begin and end - told us two ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2009
... US gross domestic product rose at an annual rate of 3.5 per cent in the third quarter, the surest sign yet that the recession there has ended. At 0725 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was 81 points higher at ...

Super should not be compulsory: Cox

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2009
... tax benefits received by high income earners. Superannuation has also been a key contributor to Australia avoiding a recession, with new research from ASFA showing the country's Gross Domestic Product would have been 1.8 per cent lower in June 2008 without ...

Joined at the hip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2009
... to the US. Canadians are being crunched on both sides: Weaker US consumption and lower demand for imports due to the recession and, the uncompetitive price of its export owing to the Canadian dollar's appreciation. The C$ has appreciated by more than ...

Elusive 10K

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
... in that direction anyway as one after another, many of the companies built on dotcoms folded and the US underwent a recession. The Dow reclaimed 10K nearly three years later (Dec 2003) after the geopolitical uncertainty - borne out of America's engagement ...

Pushing on a string

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009

Super saved the economy

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
Superannuation helped Australia avoid a recession, with new research from ASFA showing the country's Gross Domestic Product would have been 1.8 per cent lower in June 2008 without the super system. Superannuation has played a vital role in strengthening ...

Small caps and Asia on Auscoal radar

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... mandates within the fund. In the meantime, the fund will continue to monitor the threat of a possible "global double dip in recession", which could spell further disasters in global equities markets. "The recovery is being driven by a rebounding consumer ...