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| | | Australia's economic position in a global context was up for discussion at the Financial Standard's Chief Economist Forum in Sydney and Melbourne this week. Speaker Tim Harcourt, chief economist for Australian and Global Economics at the UNSW Australian ... |
| | | | ... that have reported so far this season have topped market expectations. And this is not entirely due to cost cutting. US business sales have been growing at double-digit annual rates since the start of this year - much, much more than the boom pre-GFC ... |
| | | | ... the pace before the GFC - yes, the boom years. The same is true for real personal income. Annual growth of 12.4 in US business sales (manufacturing and trade) is the highest on my records (dating back from January 1993). The only thing I don't have to ... |
| | | | Gimme, gimme. This was the financial markets' almost universal clamour just a few weeks ago before the Fed handed down QE2. They wanted it... and so desperately. Heck, some even wanted more than the US$600 billion Big Ben handed out. But that was a ... |
| | | | The Australian share market is expected to open higher on Tuesday as Wall Street extended its rally on company acquisitions and stronger than expected economic data from China. At 0758 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index ... |
| | | | IOOF Holdings, the listed financial services group that could become the new owner of the AXA North platform subject to ongoing AXA APH merger talks, books a strong set of full-year results and flags the continuing consolidation of its various business ... |
| | | | ... economic growth following a major downgrade to a key economic indicator on the Asian giant. The Conference Board, a US business research firm, revised the April Leading Economic Indicator for China to 0.3 per cent from 1.7 per cent. The board then announced ... |
| | | | NAB-owned planning group Godfrey Pembroke has set in motion a strategy that will switch all of its planners out of providing commission-based advice on insurance and mortgages. The decision goes against common practice in the planning industry of maintaining ... |
| | | | Boutique fund manager Instreet has hired former HFA Asset Management executive Sam Harris as relationship manager for New South Wales. With more than eight years of experience in the financial services industry, he brings to the role knowledge of the ... |
| | | | The Australian sharemarket has opened 0.3 per cent higher, led by stocks with US operations and wealth managers, after the US unemployment rate declined unexpectedly. At 1017 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 14.4 points, or 0.31 per cent ... |
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