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Losing triple A by trying to maintain AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013
... share price index futures contract was up four points at 5172. In economic news on Wednesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) releases its index of commodity prices for month just ended, while RBA assistant governor (financial system) Malcolm Edey ...

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... number of months in past 31 that the index has been below the 50 expansion/contraction mark. All because of the A$. Perhaps the RBA should do a BOJ and kill the AUD too. The G-20 wouldn't mind as long as it explains to them that, like Japan, its actions ...

A lesson against austerity

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
... with the government of the day still wanting to limit the budget deficit (from the promised surplus) because it allows the RBA to lower interest rates. The Australian government hasn't learnt its economic lesson. It was spending big and handing out tax ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
... share price index futures contract was up four points at 5172. In economic news on Wednesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) releases its index of commodity prices for month just ended, while RBA assistant governor (financial system) Malcolm Edey ...

On austerity, growth and expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2013
... rates. It has seen that nothing much has changed the economic malaise afoot in the Eurozone. And the week after this, our own RBA takes the stage. While markets don't anticipate any rate cut at the RBA's May meeting, the Credit Suisse interest rate expectations ...

Pengana AEq fund reaches $227m FUM

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013
... quarter and achieved a return of 9.9%, net of all fees and charges. The returns beat the ASX200, which generated 8% and the RBA Cash Rate, which returned 0.7% during the same quarter. The fund, directed at retail and wholesale clients, holds a concentrated ...

Reversal of fortune

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013
... the aggregate monthly hours worked dropped. You know what follows don't you now Virginia? Interest rate cuts are back on the RBA's 'to do' list. It has to or the growing number of forecasters forecasting that the unemployment rate would reach a knee-shaking ...

Interest rate to fall to 2.5%: NAB

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
... investor intentions report to suggest that non-mining sectors can up the slack from falling mining investment," he said. "The RBA will cut rates as it grows concerned about a softening of the energy sector in the next couple of months, and then again ...

Super changes ease political and financial uncertainty

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
... superannuation from the annual federal budget cycle and the political debate and allow an independent body, similar to the RBA to determine the appropriate policy setting for the super system," said FPA chief executive Mark Rantall. Many consider superannuation ...