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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2006
This is largely because of their inflationary effects as a result of businesses, particularly in the construction sector, competing for labour and materials. Costello argues that the $9 billion that has been set aside for tax cuts per year over the ...

Snowball to snap up Western Pacific

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2006
Financial planning group Snowball has announced it plans to complete the purchase of Western Australian based financial planning group Western Pacific Financial Planning, a move which comes after Snowball acquired an initial stake last year. Under the ...

Symantec turns compliance into revenue

As the financial services industry continues to grapple with rising compliance-related spend, software giant Symantec has announced plans to develop IT solutions that will turn what is traditionally a cost burden into a profit-generating investment. ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2006
... weeks as investors turned away from volatile sectors, were some of the Nasdaq's biggest gainers, with Cisco Systems Inc and Intel Corp also buoying the S&P 500. Shares of big energy-hungry industrial companies such as diversified manufacturers United ...

Laing to launch risky business

Financial services consulting firm Laing Advisory has signed up MLC to a soon-to-launch life insurance hub called 'the risk store', which is designed to help financial advisers provide life risk insurance advice to their clients. "Whole industry feedback ...

Groups must earn planner loyalty: brandmanagement

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2006
If dealer groups thought winning business from investors was hard, it can be almost as tough winning support just from your own planners. Financial services market intelligence and research consultancy brandmanagement said groups have to work hard to ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2006
... 18,357. NEW YORK - US tech stocks fell, with the Nasdaq tumbling almost 2 percent, dragged down by a disappointing forecast by Intel Corp. Written details of the Federal Reserve's last meeting, that showed policy makers saw "significant uncertainty" ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2006
... companies. Computer maker Dell rose on Nasdaq a day after it said it would begin using chips from Advanced Micro Devices, ending Intel's monopoly. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 15.77 points to 11,144.06. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index added ...

Rate hike catches economists unaware

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2006
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) handed down a controversial decision today to lift the official cash rate from 5.5 per cent to 5.75 per cent, a move economists say caught many unawares. Benjamin Ong, chief economist with the Financial Standard Intelligence ...

Daily economic update

Australian headline consumer prices rose by a slightly higher-than-expected 0.9 per cent in the March quarter taking the annual inflation rate to 3 per cent - right at the upper limit of the Reserve Bank of Australia's 2-3 per cent target band. Financial ...