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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... figures was offset by a pick-up in oil prices, an upbeat Federal Reserve economic report and hopes for lower rates for a little longer. Shanghai surged 2.71 per cent, or 110.66 points, to 4,194.82 and Hong Kong gained 0.44 per cent, or 120.89 points ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... lingering disappointment over trade figures out of China. "Offshore leads weren't great. In combination with that, there's a little bit of negativity from the China data from yesterday," Quay equities head of trading Tristan K'Nell said. On Wall Street ...

China's trade trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... in the reserve requirement ratio? Or both? But while these could potentially goose China's domestic economy, it'll have little impact on offshore demand. As the trade accounts show, exports to the US fell by 8% year-on-year in March, by 19% to the European ...

NZ Super suspends Milford AM mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... never before been public information," Young said, and added that "given the frequency of FMA investigations, there is little information we can reliably draw from the fact of its existence or its duration." The FMA has revealed that it expects to conclude ...

Go south young (China) man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... heading lower, property still in a funk and the Shanghai composite index now considered over valued, Chinese investors have little other choice but to head south... at least until the arbitrage gap is closed. But as Reuters reports, "Hong Kong shares ...

Experts urge govt to do more to boost infra investment

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... risk-sharing mechanisms such as availability-based payments. Investors have a strong preference for brownfield investment and little appetite for greenfield investment in infrastructure, despite the latter's economic importance. Investors have not been ...

Competition for annuities likely to remain low

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... government actuaries support and the product is unlikely to be the recommendation of a trustee," the report said. "We see very little attractiveness in this product and would be surprised if trustees gave it much consideration." The Australian Prudential ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
... S&P and a 2.4 per cent move lower in the NASDAQ," he said. "(And) there is nervousness out there that we are due for a little bit of a contraction." Mr Lucas said the financial sector was performing particularly badly, down 1.5 per cent. Commonwealth ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
... while consumer prices rose for the first time in four months. The new economic data make a faster rate hike by the Fed "a little bit more likely," said Chris Low, chief economist at FTN Financial. LONDON - Eurozone markets mostly pushed higher on encouraging ...

Client satisfaction up despite bad press

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
Bad press, a tough business environment and rising compliance costs have had little impact on the positive experiences customers of the country's leading advice firms have had over the last 12 months, according to a new comprehensive research report. ...