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Small caps and Asia on Auscoal radar

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... of the Asian ex-Japan economies and opportunity to allocate to specialist managers in this region to exploit the continued GDP growth [there]. "Another theme Auscoal Super is exploring is small caps - Australian investors tend to take a global allocation ...

Tax system should improve wellbeing: Henry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... yesterday at the Committee for Economic Development (CEDA), Dr Henry said, "Successful tax reform is not just about increasing GDP or revenue, or making the system easier to understand, or more sustainable, or fairer, or better able to assist governments ...

The shrinking big dollar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
... The US dollar's depreciation is increasing risk, not reducing it. With the US budget deficit forecast to 13.5 per cent of GDP this year - second only to Britain's 14.4 per cent and higher than Iceland and Ireland's 13.0 per cent - the big dollar will ...

Global funds lose $20trn to GFC

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2009
... Wyatt World 500 ranking. The enormity of the loss is illustrated by it being equivalent to almost 40 per cent of total world GDP of about US$55 trillion. The biggest funds were hit the most, with the report showing that the top 20 global managers accounted ...

Bears cursed by September curse

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
... a fall back in business activity in the area - from 50 in the previous month. Expectations were for a rise to 52. US real GDP was revised upwards, showing that the economy contracted at a smaller rate of 0.7 per cent (initial estimate was a 1 per cent ...

Don't forget the economics: Macq

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2009
... emerging markets are susceptible to extreme volatility caused by macro factors such as changes in gross domestic product (GDP) and the country's ability to service its debt. "Our research has shown that regardless of the strength or weakness of a company's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2009
... for growth in the nation's gross domestic product for first three months of next year to five per cent from three per cent. GDP has been shrinking, although many economists think it will return to growth for the July-September quarter. Meanwhile, Procter ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
... to be a pull-back in September and October, and it's sort of happening, basically." Australian real gross domestic product (GDP) rose by a seasonally adjusted 0.6 per cent in the June quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said. The GDP figures ...

Not bullish enough, maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
... Australian National Accounts paint a rosier picture than what financial markets anticipate. Consensus expects Australian real GDP to post a 0.7 per cent growth in the second quarter - almost double the 0.38 per cent advance in the first three months ...

Lucky, lucky, lucky

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
... in recent months and you would be wondering what recession have all these experts been talking about? Sure, Australian real GDP dipped by 0.6 per cent in the last quarter of 2008 but...but...but that's about it really. Now economic gurus are busily working ...