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US Fed hints at QE3

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... remained too slow to reduce medium-term unemployment, the minutes reportedly said. The biggest threat to a further stimulus package is an increase in inflation risks, some members said, but the policy makers renewed their pledge to hold interest rates ...

Whatever the question, the answer is China

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
This week's Financial Standard chief economist breakfast forum heard that no matter what the economic question, the answer always seems to be China and how we seize it's opportunities, contain its inflation threats and redirect its capital flows. The ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
... face of the weaker US dollar, and investor appetite is on the rise after the US Federal Reserve announced its stimulus package," he said. At 1200 AEDT, mining giant BHP Billiton Ltd was up $1.09, or 2.49 per cent, at $44.81. Mr Daghlian said the miner ...

Planes, trains & automobiles and the bush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
... not give him mucho dineros to pay for the shovels. Especially not when many consider his 2009 US$787 billion stimulus package made very little bang for the buck - the unemployment rate remains at near 10 per cent - and was only effective in widening ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
... per cent, at $2.01 after it said it's unlikely to replace all work won last year from the federal government's stimulus package. Mr Xiradis said the financial sector, like the market overall, was weaker because of market strength. "We've had a reasonably ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... fall in US consumer confidence then added to concerns that consumption is tailing off after last year's massive stimulus package, leaving the recovery at risk -- and the markets over-valued. In London, the FTSE 100 index of leading shares closed down ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2010
... holding pattern included uncertainty over Europe's aid package for Greece and the withdrawal of the US government's stimulus package, scheduled for March 31, he said. "You've got the China Syndrome so to speak. The main concern is what will those measures ...

From ratchet to resilient: an economy in bloom

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
Long-time economist Don Stammer described Australia's economy as the 'most potent' in the world, shrugging off the financial crisis like no other - but it faces serious challenges this year and next. Stammer was one of six leading economists that presented ...

What China wants China gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
... 2009. The central government made sure of this when it announced the 4 trillion yuan (US$585 billion) fiscal stimulus package - along with other monetary policy easing measures - late last year. Invest, invest, invest. Investment contributed 7.3 percentage ...

Super saved the economy

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
... capital stock would have been almost $144 billion less. "Superannuation amounts to an almost permanent economic stimulus package." "The research clearly shows that low and middle income families are more than $100,000 better off with super than without ...