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Morningstar re-jigs Australasian team

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... team for the past four years. Before joining the Australasian team, he worked in the UK team for three years. The research house stated that it was committed to continuing to provide investors and advisers with independent, timely research on Australian ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... Moscow. The president made his remarks after meeting with Ukraine's new prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, at the White House. In local economic news on Friday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases lending finance figures for January. Meanwhile ...

US Congress votes to raise debt ceiling

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... aligned GOP Senator Ted Cruz to stall the vote by introducing procedural motions. In response to passage of the bill the White House issued a statement saying "it was a positive step in moving away from the political brinkmanship that has [been] a needless ...

You say threshold, I say trigger

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... guidance. Go back to January's FOMC statement (Bennie's last and which I'm sure she signed on). It's there in black and white: "The Committee also reaffirmed its expectation that the current exceptionally low target range for the federal funds rate of ...

NGS Super launches direct investment platform

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
... and term deposits from their super or pension accounts. It is the result of a collaboration with Mercer, which created a white-label product for multiple funds, with NGS Super the first to roll it out. NGS Super chief executive Anthony Rodwell-Ball said ...

Right direction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2013

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013
... gains. Locally,, in economic news on Monday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases retail trade data for September and house price indexes for the September quarter. The ANZ job advertisements series for October is due out, as is the TD Securities-Melbourne ...

Obama says no deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013
... to 5,153 and the broader All Ordinaries index gaining 3.5 points to 5,151.6. NEW YORK - US stocks were mixed as the White House moved to convene meetings with leading members of Congress to seek an end to economic policy paralysis in Washington. The ...

Obama expected to pick Yellen as US Fed chair

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... President Barack Obama will nominate Federal Reserve vice-chair Janet Yellen to be the next head of the US central bank, White House officials have said. If confirmed by the Democrat controlled US Senate, Yellen would become the first woman to hold the ...