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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... Spooner said the Australian market had opened higher than expected on Thursday. "We are starting to divorce ourselves a little bit from the US and European declines," he said. "I would anticipate that we will do less than the US on the downside for a ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after Wall Street closed little changed. At 0803 AEST on Thursday, the September share price index futures contract was down eight points at 5,450. Locally, in economic news on Thursday, The Australian Bureau ...

RBA leaves interest rates on hold

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... rates". Continued low interest rates were expected to help growth strengthen over time, although growth was expected to be "a little below trend over the year ahead", Mr Stevens said. He noted that recent data showed an increase in inflation, affected ...

MetLife refocuses on middle classes with direct distribution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... the insurance sector that MetLife in a June briefing to investors in the US said 79 million households either have too little life insurance or none at all leading to an insurance gap estimated at US$15 trillion. MetLife noted that in coverage terms ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... sentiment. "It (the QBE downgrade) went down like a lead balloon," he said. "Were it not for QBE, we'd be up higher." With little corporate and economic news to give much drive to the market, investors likely would look toward US quarterly gross domestic ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat after little change on Wall Street where the S&P 500 inched toward another record high. At 0807 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was up eight points at 5,540. Locally, no major ...

Sustaining confidence in the Australian financial system: Murray

DAVID MURRAY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... remained around 2.3 per cent (compared with around 4 per cent at the time of Wallis) while their Return on Equity is a little lower than pre-crisis levels. We note in the interim report that major banks have some significant commercial advantages over ...

GPS Wealth approves DomaCom fractional property fund

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... in, or engage a property consultant to assist. Through a book build process they can invest as much as they want from as little as $2,000 and spread their asset allocation across multiple properties to achieve the right blend of yield and capital growth ...

Run with bulls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... bulls" festivities is happening not only in Pamplona, Spain but... everywhere. But unlike in Pamplona, there appears to be little chance of being gored, not with the central bank offering almost perpetual succour or for as long as they could. The minutes ...

What happened to the ISA-FSC accord?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... as a whole is going to need to work out a landing point which is the result of consensus and agreement, because there is little or no value - in fact it's destructive - to spend a huge amount of effort, time and resources arguing over the foundations ...