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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... share price index futures contract was up 58 points at 4,306. In economic news on Tuesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases its building approvals for July data. In equities news, Harvey Norman, Infigen Energy, TFS Corp, Beach Energy ...

Moody's does an S&P

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2011
... prevent the Japanese economy from growing fast enough to reduce its budget deficit is not consistent with recent economic statistics showing that Japan has already started to recover from the devastation of the March quake. This is underscored by better ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
... economy, but more of a distaste for US dollars, as well as the rally in equities." On Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics will release June quarter Construction Work Done figures.

ANZ shows increased profit and deposit growth

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... billion of residential investment mortgages according to the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority's June banking statistics. It had $71.5 billion worth of household deposits registered in the same month, the statistics said. In its nine-month activity ...

Financial services turn to Twitter

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
... Twitter profile in 2008 but October 2010, that number had grown to 57%. Since then, Corporate Insights has been compiling statistics related to social media on a monthly basis and have so far shown that Twitter continues to grow in popularity among financial ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
... Hollows said there was little economic news of significance to currency traders due on Thursday. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will release data on Average Weekly Ordinary Time Earnings (AWOTE) for the three months to May. The Australian ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... expects the rating to stay there, another positive for sentiment. In economic data on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics is due to release the June labour price index at 1130 AEST. The Westpac/Melbourne Institute Survey of Consumer Sentiment ...

Former Liberal leader named Equiti Capital chair

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... April 1990 to May 1994 for the Liberal party, Hewson was formerly an economist for the Australian Treasury (Census and Statistics), the Reserve Bank of Australia, the International Monetary Fund and the UN. He also held roles as Shadow Finance Minister ...

Pensioner inflation hits 4.5%

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... to regular inflation for the general population which is up only 3.6% over the same period. The Australian Bureau of Statistics June 2011 Pensioner and Beneficiary Living Cost Index that was released today reveals pensioner costs are continuing to rise ...

Lost GPS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... estimates of monthly real GDP prepared by Macroeconomic Advisers." The latest readings from these activity and income statistics are not signalling that a recession is in the offing soon - in fact they point towards continued growth. I don't have access ...