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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2012
... the Dow to pre-crisis levels, as investors celebrated a surge in job growth that pointed to new vitality in the fragile recovery. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 156.82 points (1.23 per cent) to finish at 12,860.23, its highest closing level ...

Waiting for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... address the urgent issue of fiscal sustainability, they should take care not to unnecessarily impede the current economic recovery" because "a more robust recovery will lead to lower deficits and debt in coming years." The Fed's going for growth to fight ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... last month, and Europe and the United States following suit, analysts said on Thursday that there was some hope that a recovery could be back on track. Tokyo gained 0.76 per cent, or 67.03 points, to close at 8,876.82, Sydney added 1.0 per cent, or 42.1 ...

Eyes turn to monetary policy

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
... pressure on certain currency sensitive sectors, while also leading to a modest lift in housing investment and induce some recovery in parts of consumption spending," said Briganti. He said this means investors should begin looking at opportunities for ...

Bold predictions of US recovery

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
The US economy is bound for recovery this year on the back of stronger fundamentals, the Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum heard this week. Dr Bob Baur, chief global economist for Principal Global Investors pointed to positive indicators in ...

Asia vital for Aus business: Harcourt

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
... for Australian business in 2012. "When Bernanke [Ben, chair of the US Federal Reserve] talked about the green shoots of recovery, he should have talked about bamboo shoots...even a slowing China is a fast story for Australia," said Harcourt. Harcourt ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012
... Wednesday (US time) pledged to keep interest rates low until at least 2014 to nurture the country's stubbornly slow economic recovery. City Index chief market analyst Peter Esho said the Australian market, which was closed on Thursday for the Australia ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012
... Federal Reserve pledged to keep interest rates low until late 2014 to nurture the country's stubbornly slow economic recovery. The Fed cut rates to near zero in December 2008 during the financial crisis and has held them there ever since. The announcement ...

Fund managers rate Aust equities

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... but the market appears priced for this. If a global recession can be avoided, the equity market could stage a healthy recovery in 2012," said Van Munster. "We believe the market is now pricing in a significant amount of bad news and earnings risk. If ...

UniSuper responds to criticism

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011
... social media as inferring that benefits payable to the fund's 450,000 members could be at risk if capital markets do not recovery, overlooked that the defined benefit component of the fund accounts for only one-third the fund's assets and less than one-quarter ...