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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... was down 68 points at 4,142. In economic news on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases the national accounts, including gross domestic product, for the December 2011 quarter, while the Australian Industry Group/Housing Industry Association ...

Perpetual completes retail distribution restructure

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012
Former NAB/MLC Wealth head of national accounts and research Matt Thompson will join Perpetual next month as general manager strategic accounts. The move is part of a shake-up of Perpetual's retail distribution set-up announced in December, which sees ...

Waiting for the RBA to dance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
... according to reports, Australians have become penny-pinchers. They're now saving instead of spending. The Australian National Accounts reveal the household savings ratio have risen to 10.1% of disposable income in the third quarter of last year - far ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
... economy grew strongly in the September quarter. The Australian Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday released the national accounts for the September quarter, revealing growth of 1.0 per cent for the quarter and 2.5 for the year to that month. Economists ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
... contract was up 32 points at 4,300. In economic news on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases national accounts figures, including gross domestic product, for the September quarter. The Australian Industry Group/Housing Industry Association ...

Another 'should have gone shopping' moment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2011
... 2007 peak. This is what we, economists, call economic expansion. You want more? Look at the details of the US National Accounts. Real consumer spending jumped by 2.4% from 0.7% in the second quarter. No, that couldn't be? Not when confidence is down ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
... 60 points at 4,128. In economic news on Wednesday, the Australia Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases data on National Accounts including gross domestic product for June quarter and Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Glenn Stevens delivers a luncheon ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) meeting for its September board meeting and interest rate decision on Tuesday and national accounts and labour force data due later in the week. "We don't believe the RBA will change interest rates but, of course, all ...

CommInsure hires AMP manager to strengthen retail advice

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
... Kennedy will over see CommInsure's state- based sales teams, risk sales academy, business growth services and national accounts teams. With over 20 years experience in the industry, Kennedy has held senior positions at NAB/MLC, ING Financial Planning/RetireInvest ...

All good but for the dollar A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
The global community was not in the least perturbed by the release of Australia's National Accounts that showed real GDP fell by 1.2 per cent in the March quarter. Not even the fact that the economic slump in the first three months of 2011 was bigger ...