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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2012
Australian shares have opened almost 1.5 per cent higher after the release of better-than-expected US jobs figures. The Wall Street rallied on Friday after official figures showed the US unemployment rate fell from 8.5 per cent in December to 8.3 per ...

The light, the light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2012
Reverend Cleophus James: Do you see the light? Elwood: What light? Reverend Cleophus James: Have you seen the light? Jake: Yes! Yes! Yes!... I have seen the light! - The Blues Brothers Yes, yes, yes, Virginia, gauging from the rally in equity and commodity ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2012
The Australian market looks set to open higher. At 0001 AEDT on Monday, the March share price index futures contract was up 56 points at 4,278. In economic news on Monday, the TD Securities-Melbourne Institute inflation gauge for January is released ...

Financial services digging deep for FICAP

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
The Financial Industry Community Aid Programme (FICAP) has signed up another three platinum sponsors for its charity concert next month. ANZ, Colonial First State and RNC Global Projects have joined returning sponsors BT Financial Group and Perpetual ...

Waiting for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... find that the US Federal Reserve in on the case. Just last night, in his testimony before the House of Representatives, Big Ben declared that, "Even as fiscal policymakers address the urgent issue of fiscal sustainability, they should take care not to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
The Australian market looks set to open flat. At 0828 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was up one point at 4,240. In economic news on Friday, the Australian Performance of Services Index (PSI) is due to be released, while ...

Eyes turn to monetary policy

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
Australian GDP growth will slow this year shifting the focus back to monetary policy and Macquarie Group chief economist Richard Gibbs forecasts the RBA will respond with two more rate cuts during 2012. Gibbs was speaking at the 2012 Financial Standard ...

Don't be fooled by strong AUD

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
The strength of the Australian currency has led many to believe our economy is also resilient, but the local economy is falling well behind the Asian region, according to one senior chief economist. Clifford Bennett, chief economist at the White Crane ...

Asia vital for Aus business: Harcourt

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
... China, South East Asia and increasingly India, remain extremely important for Australian business in 2012. "When Bernanke [Ben, chair of the US Federal Reserve] talked about the green shoots of recovery, he should have talked about bamboo shoots...even ...

ASIC continues Trio crackdown

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
The investigation into the collapse of failed fund manager Trio Capital continues, with the banning of another figure with ties to the firm. Tony Maher, who changed his name from Paul Gresham, has been permanently banned from working in the Australian ...