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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
... September to 30.8 in October while prices received increased by only 1.5 to 17.5. The Bank of Japan has decided to raise interest rates by a mere quarter of a percentage point to 0.25 per cent which was the first increase since 2000. The rise follows ...

Tyndall's new fixed interest strategy sees Gustafson exit

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2006
Tyndall has announced a new fixed interest strategy that will see it focusing on debt based products as well as promoting Roger Bridges to a new role as head of bonds while current executive bond manager, Ross Gustafson, departs. Executive director ...

Compliance gets interactive: Vignette

Phone records, emails and reports are all great ways to keep up with compliance legislation but IT group Vignette has raised the bar by pushing web capture technology as a better alternative to monitor customer interaction and minimise fraud. Vignette ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2006
... September's core producer prices exceeded expectations, and increased concerns the Federal Reserve would delay any cut in interest rates while industrial output fell, raising concerns companies may not sustain double-digit earnings growth. The Dow Jones ...

Agribusiness still appeals to lenders

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2006
... Rural land values have been affected by the strength of agricultural commodity markets, by farm consolidation, by low interest rates and to some degree by lifestyle investments such as "tree change". Jennings believes rural land values have peaked, a ...

INVESCO shores up fixed income with $280m global mandates

... about other global fixed income mandates. "It's taken us 18 months to get to this stage but we're now getting a lot of interest for our fixed income capabilities from institutional and retail investors." Michelle Baltazar

NSW bankruptcies reach record highs

... household variables such as falling or stagnant housing prices, high petrol prices and the possible threat of rising interest rates have made the Australian public a lot more uncertain about their future," said Paul Leroy, partner at Hall Chadwick. Bankruptcies ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2006
... Sydney Futures Exchange at 0759 AEST, the December share price index contract was 19 points higher at 5322. Today, market interest is expected to continue to centre on the insurance sector, after last week's $7.87 billion takeover bid by SunCorp-Metway ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2006
... but also some of the real strength is coming out of the finance companies," Land said. "There's still quite a lot of interest around in the insurers/fund managers." The US provided a strong lead with the Dow Jones industrial average reaching record levels. ...

Future Fund chair talks about T3 and politics

... investment. "I don't know. Only time will tell. We are, in a sense, in a very passive position for the two years. We'll take an interest in the company's progress so that when we're in a position to sell our shares and put the proceeds in our main fund ...