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Buffett discloses new Verizon investment

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... in General Motors. The car maker is dealing with recalls of several models, but Berkshire still held 30 million shares in March, down from 40 million in December. Several of the changes revealed on Thursday were related to television entertainment: - ...

IOOF awards $115m global equities mandate

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... SSgA's Global Managed Volatility Alpha fund. The "benchmark unaware" strategy, which was launched for Australian investors in March last year, aims to deliver strong returns while managing total return volatility at the portfolio level. "A key factor ...

BOE qualifies for World Cup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... that's become "a threshold not a trigger"? This has fallen below that - to 6.9% in February and dropped further to 6.8% in March (the lowest in five years). And by the looks of it, this pretty picture is set to become even prettier with employment rising ...

Australian ETF industry passes $11 billion milestone

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... has flowed into ASX-listed in 2014, with April attracting record inflows of $331 million, an increase from $265 million in March. Arian Neiron, managing director at ETF provider Market Vectors Australia said the inclusion of ETFs in model portfolios ...

Promises promises and broken promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... dropping from 6.1% to 5.8%. The lead from the improving ANZ job ads series - it had risen for the fourth straight month in March-- indicates that further improvement in the Australian labour market is in store. Also, "Growth in wages has declined noticeably ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... market was relatively flat at noon. Resources stocks dropped after the release of data showing a weaker trade surplus in March, due to weaker exports. BHP Billiton was down 11 cents at $37.38, Rio Tinto had dropped 37 cents to $61.28 and Fortescue Metals ...

'Choice' dashboard, portfolio disclosure delayed to 2015

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... initially anticipated, reinforced by the superannuation regulator the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) in March this year announcing it will delay introduction of some of its new data collections associated with choice workplace super ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... 5,464. The HSBC purchasing managers index (PMI) for China for April on Monday came in at 48.1, a tad up from the 48.0 in March but weaker than the 48.3 reported in its preliminary report on April 23. In Ukraine, fighting intensified between government ...

Mother doesn't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... employment report remains ambivalent at best. It was good. US companies added a bigger-than-expected 288,000 to their payrolls in March - the biggest increase since February 2012 - that followed equally strong gains of 203K in March and 222K in February. ...

ECB to stay in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... was good - well, sort of. Euro area inflation edged up to 0.7% in the 12 months to April from the four year low of 0.5% in March. Odd news because it lessens the threat of deflation. Sort of, because one month's figure does not a trend make and, April's ...