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Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
The Australian share market was slightly higher at noon, following better than expected local economic data and mixed overseas leads. Business investment rose 0.2% in the September quarter, beating economists' expectations of a 1.9% fall, while new ...

Don't rule out another rate cut: AllianceBernstein

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... rebalancing helped by the current low interest rate and a falling depreciating currency. However, AllianceBernstein senior economist Guy Bruten believes the consensus view underestimates the likely impact on Australia of the collapse in commodity prices ...

ACFS appoints execs from ANZ and EY

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... services industry. Amy Auster joins as deputy director from ANZ, where for most of the last decade she worked as an economist, strategist senior executive during the bank's expansion into Asia. Her most recent role was global head of marketing and client ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street stocks fluctuated as data showing the economy expanded more than previously forecast was offset by a drop in consumer confidence. At 0815 AEST on Wednesday, the December share price index ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... Sydney. The CEDA workplace flexibility event in Adelaide features PwC managing partner Gavin Moss and AllianceBernstein economist Guy Bruten offers a briefing in Sydney on Australian economy in 2015. In equities news, Medibank Private is due to begin ...

Standard Life Inv strengthens strategy team

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... executives. Chris Faulkner-MacDonagh joins as market strategist and Alex Wolf has been appointed as emerging markets economist. Both will contribute to Standard Life Investments' house view and generate research ideas for the wider business. The appointments ...

Santa came to town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... bps. Stop right there, before you conclude that this particular one punishes depositors, it does not, according to The Economist. "Competition among banks to attract savers should ensure that banks offer the highest-possible rates. One-year deposit rates ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... on ice "until 2016". I placed quotation marks on "until 2016" cause that's one of the main "ifs" Deutsche Bank chief economist, Adam Boyton, set forth as one of the preconditions for the dollar-A to hit 0.66 versus the dollar-US back in February this ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... economic news on Thursday, the Commonwealth Bank business sales indicator for October is due out. Meanwhile, Westpac chief economist Bill Evans is slated to speak at a CEDA lunch in Brisbane while Fairfax boss Greg Hywood is to speak at the Publish conference. ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
The Australian stock market has opened higher following a flat lead from the US. Patersons Securities economist Tony Farnham said there was little in the way of economic or company news to drive the market at present. "We're really looking for things ...