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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2007
Following its most recent meeting about interest rates the Reserve Bank has expectedly decided not to raise interest rates and the cash rate remains unchanged at 6.25 per cent. The RBA expects non-farm GDP to increase to 3.5 per cent having softened ...

Super rules will always change

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2007
Superannuation rules will always be changing and the industry just has to accept this, said Ramani Venkatramani, general manager for specialised institutions at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). "Most organisations complaining about ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2007
... Homeowners, as well as markets, will be eager to hear from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) this mornning on whether interest rates will stay on hold. The Australian share market closed higher yesterday, with the big resource stocks defying lower ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2007
... results. On the economics front, the board of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is meeting to decide whether to raise interest rates, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics will release December quarter government finance estimates. The Australian ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2007
... figures show a slight strengthening of consumer demand following the softness that occurred as a result of the three interest rate hikes that occurred last year. With rates kept on hold for the last few months, consumers are letting their spending trickle ...

China funds under pressure?

... The running strategy is to manage the country's unprecedented growth by hiking up the cost of capital (through higher interest rates) and lowering risk (banks ordered to increase reserves and limit lending for share investments). The question is, what ...

Private equity everywhere: CHAMP

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2007
Private equity players are now rightfully an integral part of any deal in Australia, big or small, according to Nat Childers, director of CHAMP Private Equity. Addressing attendees at the 2007 Asian Private Equity and Venture Forum, Childers painted ...

MFS broadens product range

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2007
... aims to generate absolute returns by investing in managers across asset classes, with an emphasis on shares and fixed interest securities. The MFS Cash Enhanced Fund aims outperform cash returns on a one year rolling basis and is weighted towards cash ...

Centro to buy $6.35b US REIT

Centro Retail Trust (CER) and Centro are to acquire US-based New Plan Excel Realty Trust for $6.35 billion (US$5 billion) less than four months after the group signed another US REIT deal for Heritage for $4.35 billion. Shares in Centro were in a trading ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2007
... was now awaiting the next catalyst. "We are just holding our breath for the next catalyst of the market. "That may be interest rates, but I think that interest rates will be flat." At 1201 AEDT, BHP Billiton saw an 11 cent drop in its share price to ...