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Indonesian inflation falls to 4.25pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... government bonds in the secondary market [will force] the government [to] be overwhelmingly reliant on foreign investors and Bank Indonesia," they said. Increasing activity in the Asian bond market, combined with some dampening in the outlook for selected ...

AMP appoints interim Multiport head

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
Multiport Managing Director and founder John McIlroy will leave the business in June this year with Libby Roy appointed as interim head. Roy was previously head of financial planning at ipac and will transition into the role in an interim capacity from ...

The Fed, the ECB and the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... - should conditions there deteriorate. It hasn't deteriorated that much yet but almost in an instant the European Central Bank confirmed my presumption. It dispatched Executive Board member Benoit Coeure - the person in charge of market operations -- ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... for April and the Australian Bureau of Statistics housing finance figures for February are released. In Atlanta, Reserve Bank of Australia head of financial stability Luci Ellis takes part in a panel discussion at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta ...

J.P. Morgan TS builds with six senior hires

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
J.P. Morgan has continued its hiring blitz appointing Damian Crowley as head of cash and trade sales for J.P. Morgan Treasury Services Australia and New Zealand along with five other senior hires. The newly appointed team will work closely with their ...

Social media trials in US continue

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... onwallstreet, adviser firms Wedbush Securities launched a new social media program across its entire firm in January while the Bank of America Merrill Lynch is now offering its own internal social media options, as discussed by a panel of experts from ...

Microinsurance reaches 500m people

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... populations, interest from public and private insurers and relevant distribution channels that include local and village bank branches, retailers and phone companies. "What the developed world took several hundred years to accomplish cannot be replicated ...

Bring it on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... record 6.71% (Spain) and 7.29% (Italy) reached last November. You know the one -- the one that prompted the European Central Bank (ECB) to implement its long-term re-financing operation (LTRO) in December and focused European finmins minds to bring forward ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... zone. At 0700 AEST on Wednesday, the Australian dollar was trading at 102.50 US cents, down from 103.03 cents on Tuesday. Bank of New Zealand currency strategist Mike Jones said that despite a generally positive trade reading from China, the analysis ...

Merlon Capital expands investment team

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
... join Merlon Capital Partners (Merlon) in June 2012, taking the investment team to seven. Previously with the Commonwealth Bank as lead transport analyst, Lemme joins Merlon from AMP Capital, where he worked in the role of portfolio manager / analyst ...