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Lift-off on Carney's mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... point at which interest rates may begin to rise is moving closer with the performance of the economy, consistent growth above trend, a firming in domestic costs, counterbalanced somewhat by disinflation imported from abroad." The financial market's reaction ...

Chexit, Checcident and Chimbo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... the RBA keeping interest rates on hold and... with nary a hint of a rate cut in the future. Recall how the A$ rebounded to above US$0.80 almost immediately after the cut interest rates to a record low 2% back in May because Governor Glenn didn't wink ...

Aged care advice enquiries skyrocket

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
... backwards, put it that way." He argued that the combined issues of bed shortages and shortfalls in subsidies were driving costs above what many prospective residents could afford. "There's a funding gap there, for what it actually costs a developer or ...

High-risk pursuits may undermine super funds' solvency

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015

ANALYSIS: The rise of the periphery

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... to sit aside," he says, and adds: "Here is where the opportunity lies." Bracken notes that in Spain unemployment is still above 22%, but "all economic indicators are ticking up and beating expectations. In Ireland, unemployment is at 10%, but the 10 ...

Social media, an investment tool in times of turmoil

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... mentioning ETFs are lower than 10% in any given day, the possibility of volatility rising is only 5%. But if ETF mentions are above 20%, then there's a 95% chance that volatility will increase, according to analysis by StockTwits.

Milliman seeing shift in bond portfolios

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... dividend yield that comes out of global equity markets and Australia with franking credits. Matterson said these are well above short term cash rates. Matterson said there had been a lot of managed risk equities products launched in Australia over the ...

Insync with beer

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... now working with Warren Buffett," Kotecha said. "They deliver uprating margins in whatever they're doing and it's always above the industry average. They have exposure in the US, Latin America and China, [which are] all big markets at the end of the ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... could be moving closer. The Nasdaq Composite Index surged 68.07 points (1.34 per cent) to 5,132.95, more than 25 points above the May 27 record close. The Nasdaq also set a new intraday record of 5,143.32, about 11 points more than the prior high set ...

Market to open flat

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... Committee's decision to keep its benchmark fed funds rate in place. While policy-makers predicted the rate will rise to above 0.5 per cent by year-end, the outlook for hikes beyond that was slower than before, and Yellen herself said the economy and ...