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Asian banks still insulated from sub-prime

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2008
... inflation, and the consequent impact on operating environments. Inside Indonesia, there is a sense of deja vu as the banks face macro-economic conditions similar to those prevalent in late-2005, when the government lifted fuel subsidies," said Schuler. ...

The fight over how to fight inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
People arguing that Australia should relax its inflation targets are peculiar and misguided, argues Ken Henry, secretary of the Commonwealth Treasury. Henry's comments, in a speech he gave yesterday to a forum of Australian Business Economists in Sydney ...

Govt to create national infra investment fund

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
The government is about to set up a new multi-billion investment fund to capture the windfall revenue gains from the resources boom and will use the money to help fund national infrastructure projects, if yet another Budget leak is to be believed. Modelled ...

Hedge funds post worst Q1

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2008
... struggled during the first quarter, as these regions attempted to insulate from the global credit crisis, the report said. "Macro emerging market traders who entered the year with relatively light portfolios started to cautiously build up positions during ...

India's report card

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2008
With India eyeing starting up its own sovereign fund, it's timely to walk through the Indian economy's fundamentals. The Latest monthly economic report from the Indian Ministry of Finance said GDP growth is dipping during 2007-08 to 8.7 per cent, down ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher after US stocks gained overnight. Resource stocks may decline after commodity prices fell overnight, however. At 0706 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index futures contract ...

Job vacancies bull run falters

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
Job vacancies in Australia are finally responding to changing economic conditions falling 1.3 per cent in February to 180,300, the first time they've gone backwards in 11 quarters. The fall doesn't however yet signify an end to the job vacancy bull-run ...

Time to get radical: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
In September when the sub-prime mess began unfolding, the big worry was whether it would spill over to the real economy. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) thinks this may now be happening and has taken the problem to a whole new level requiring ...

Broadacre price boom

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
Grain prices climbing to record levels, combined with encouraging rainfall, is stirring excitement in the agribusiness sector for farmers and investors. "Farmers should be planning to cash-in on the predicted high grain prices and plant substantial ...

Bridges takes over as Scobie departs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
... will lead QIC's global credit team and will report to Robert Jewell, who is responsible for all internal active management (macro interest rate and global credit) across more than $30 billion in global fixed interest portfolios. "Prior to his time at ...