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Market to open higher

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... progress in negotiations with Greece required "adults in the room" in an apparent swipe at Greek officials. Low said he was "a little surprised" at the market's shrugging response to Greece. "Maybe we fully priced in Greece leaving the euro," he added. ...

Australia's "irrational exuberance" an economic risk: PIMCO

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
Australian households are exhibiting "irrational exuberance" by getting into too much debt and placing little weight on unemployment or returns, which means that an external shock would be severe for the economy, PIMCO said. Household debt appears to ...

Australia bottom of the class for portfolio disclosure

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... the largest fund market and one with a long history in PHD, has a regulated requirement of quarterly disclosure, but a little more than half of funds choose to disclose monthly. Generally asset managers are providing data more often than is required. ...

Market to open flat

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... AEST on Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was up three points at 5,465. Wall Street stocks finished little-changed as a the General Electric asset sale offset worries about spiking US Treasury bond yields. Locally on Wednesday, the ...

China infrastructure push to boost Australia exports

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... currency," the report forecasted. BlackRock also noted that, despite worrying trends in the Chinese economy -"too much debt, too little growth and too policy-driven" - simply dismissing buying Chinese assets would be a mistake. The fund manager admitted ...

Bond investors warned not to overlook defence

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
... their portfolio." What Husain and his team look for when buying bond markets is three characteristics: low volatility; little probability of what the bond expert calls 'jump risk', or a regime change in volatility; and a relatively steep yield curve. ...

ISA appoints "fiscal hawk" chief economist

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... to ISA. I see this as a consistent path for me." Anthony noted that the chief economist role hadn't been filled for "a little while" - the last ISA chief economist was Dr. Sacha Vidler, who stepped down from the position in September 2014. In a statement ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... analyst at Oanda foreign exchange trading company. "There are some small signs of progress being made although that is doing little to settle the markets, with most European equity indices in the red..." he added. Greece said on Tuesday it had made "difficult ...

Industry reacts to ASIC register update

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... "overreaching". "I'd heard this talk about needing to show if someone had been dismissed from somewhere, but all of that's a little problematic, I think," he said. "I read someone commenting on that, saying, 'What if someone's had a falling-out with ...

Shares lower at lunch time

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... private capital expenditure figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics had reversed the negative direction a little as investors speculated that the data could add weight for another cut to interest rates. Business investment fell 4.4% in ...