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Daily Economic Update

... Chairman Alan Greenspan estimated that about half of MEWs are spent by the US consumer. With the continued lifting of interest rates by the Fed, housing and house price growth are starting to slow which, in turn, create less equity for households to ...

Daily economic update

... affair with cheap imports the deficit is likely to increase rather than contract going forward. This is negative for US interest rates because at some point foreigners will demand higher interest rates to continue financing (around US$2.5 billion daily) ...

Kingsway Taitz launches new locally based hedge fund administrator

... between Brian Taitz and the international financial services firm, the Kingsway Group which has a significant indirect interest in the business. Taitz said the Kingsway Taitz team see themselves as an extension of the fund manager, providing accounting ...

Margin lenders bank on reputation not just rates

... they already have an existing relationship with. Meanwhile, a lower 28 per cent would choose a provider based on the interest rates offered and an even lower 25 per cent would choose one on low fees. The group's director Mark Johnston said that interest ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2006
... Industrials and the broader S&P 500 indexes close to five-year highs as a drop in Treasury yields eased worries about the interest rate and Goldman Sachs posted a record profit. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 75.32 points at 11,151.34. The Standard ...

Daily economic update

... Improving consumer confidence on the back of a recent correction in petrol prices, stabilising house prices and steady interest rates have reduced Australian business concerns over future activity. Overseas, Japan's economy expanded by a faster than ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2006
... Bureau of Statistics January lending finance data. NEW YORK - US stocks ended little changed as concern about rising interest rates and higher crude oil prices overshadowed a burst of deal news, including Capital One's $US14.6 billion bid for North Fork. ...

More senior executive changes for the FPA

The FPA's deputy chair Sarah Brennan, the prime architect of the association's conflict of interest principles, stepped down last Friday, citing family health reasons. However, her resignation coincided with a report in The West Australian newspaper ...

Fraudsters rob super funds for petrol

Two former directors have been called on to answer fraud charges following an ASIC investigation which alleged they funnelled super monies into their own petrol station businesses. The alleged offenders were Karl Heinz Hermann Veljkovic and Barry John ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2006
... report showed stronger-than-expected job growth in February, signaling to Wall Street that the economy can expand even as interest rates rise. The stock market also benefited from crude oil prices settling below $US60 a barrel for the first time in three ...