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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... Tropical Cyclone Heidi. Commodities could come under further pressure this week as investors await gross domestic product (GDP) figures from China, due to be released on Tuesday. Mr Spooner said stocks could face a sharp selloff if growth in Australia's ...

Grain price hints at strong growth: CFSGAM

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... (CFSGAM) watches global trends and found the same drivers are impacting hard and soft commodities including emerging nations GDP growth, coupled with the demands of a growing population. Skye Macpherson, portfolio manager, global resources and co-portfolio ...

Instos set sights on Indonesian assets

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... improve education." The International Monetary Fund currently ranks the Indonesian economy 17th in the world according to GDP, just four places behind Australia.

Govt releases final issue of investment manager regime

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
... treatment for the funds management sector, which in Australia has $1.8 trillion of funds under management (or 131% of Australia's GDP) - $61 billion of which comes from offshore, and will further enhance Australia as a financial services centre in the ...

Chinalising Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... latest 5-year bond auction. Falling growth. Ifo cut its growth forecast for Germany. The institution now expects the country's GDP to inched up by only 0.4% next year - down sharply from its earlier prediction for a 2.3% expansion - and this assumes ...

Plan 5 and counting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2011
... (courtesy of RBC Europe Limited): A, A commitment by member states to run structural budget deficits no larger than 0.5% of GDP, with this commitment written into national constitutions along with "automatic correction mechanisms". The timescale for ...

Ashton launches Gold Share Class

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... and their supply is theoretically unconstrained. When central banks decide to increase the monetary base well in excess of GDP growth, this by definition is value-destroying. A gold-based investment provides a hedge against this. "Given the deep-rooted ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
... quarter, revealing growth of 1.0 per cent for the quarter and 2.5 for the year to that month. Economists had been expecting GDP to rise by 1.0 per cent in the September quarter for an annual rate of 2.1 per cent, according to an AAP survey of 16 economists ...

RBA right to cut rates and correct to hold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... cent". Not gangbusters but still a decent rate by any standard. Internationally, despite slowing growth in China, the 9.4% GDP expansion in the third quarter is indicative of a soft landing - one that would enable sustainable growth in the Chinese economy ...

Quantum launches US residential fund

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
... analysis of the economic and demographic make-up of the top 25 US cities. It considered population growth, jobs growth, state GDP versus national GDP, housing affordability, vacancy rates, and infrastructure, and through a process of elimination, chose ...