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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
... over the economies of our major export partners, Japan, China and South Korea." This followed news on Thursday that China's GDP growth had slowed, as expected. "It's not a healthy picture," Mr Potter said. "Concerns about slowing demand for materials ...

Shariah-compliant hedge funds hit the spot

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
... markets in the GCC region from market disturbances." Gentilini added that while Dubai and Saudi Arabia have adjusted their GDP growth estimates following the global financial crisis, both states still project a robust non-oil GDP growth this year. But ...

Filled half-empty glass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
... are valid arguments. But we see it differently. The Australian economy's glass is half-filled. Looking beyond the headline GDP numbers - 0.1 per cent on the quarter and 1.9 per cent year-on-year - and focusing instead on the individual components, the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
... 3621.6 at 1020 AEDT, and was at 3547.4 at 1130 AEDT, up 19.2 points, when the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the GDP figures. But by 1213 AEDT, the index had dropped to 3497.8, down 30.4 points on the day or by almost one per cent. Around noon ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... the semantics of it but the traditional metric for defining a recession has not been achieved [two consecutive quarters of GDP contraction]. "I was a bit perplexed by the markets reaction to that but that's the times we live in - any kind of negative ...

Dragon still on the rise

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
... you follow that clue, then you know where to invest," said Wang. China may seem like an investment haven with its predicted GDP growth and the $94 billion recently pumped by the government to stimulate the economy. But there are drawbacks - Chinese companies ...

All together now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
... implement might be too late. Is this a case of 'Nero fiddled while Rome burns?' Japan is reporting its third quarter real GDP growth figures today - more likely than not, this will officially add the country to the list of economies that have contracted. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... CommSec market analyst Juliette Saly said China's plan was equivalent to almost $A900 billion or 86 per cent of Australia's GDP. "We've heard from Rio Tinto this morning, which will cut its iron ore output by 10 per cent due to slowing demand from China ...

Rainy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... remain jittery. More pain is to come. In its Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO), the Federal Government cut its GDP growth forecast to 2.0 per cent, from a previous forecast of 2.75 per cent for fiscal year 2008/2009. The government now also ...

It's the war, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
... in the fed funds rate. But Wall Street climbed again last night following the release of the 'better'-than-expected US real GDP growth. How anyone could put 'better' and economic contraction in one sentence would have the crew of the UFO's flying above ...