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Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
Australian shares are flat as investors stand by for unemployment data for August. The local market closed at the highest point since June 2008 on Wednesday, after posting several days of gains following a coalition election victory. But CommSec market ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
Australian shares are flat as investors stand by for unemployment data for August. The local market closed at the highest point since June 2008 on Wednesday, after posting several days of gains following a coalition election victory. But CommSec market ...

Syria on ice and other things nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013

EM correction, it's different this time

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013
... underway, which then drove up their own yields and saw their stock market indices fall. But Destry Damayanti, chief economist at Bank Mandiri in Indonesia said investors should appreciate that the Indonesian economy is structured very differently now ...

Employer super contributions down as jobless figure rises

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... fall in the 2013 June quarter since the global financial crisis, according to Financial Services Council (FSC) chief economist James Bond. The FSC's Bond Report put the figure at $489 million, or 2.4%, lower than the June quarter 2012. However, there ...

Buy me a house

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... Data-Rismark, home prices across Australia's eight states and territories have increased 5.3% in the year to July. The Economist magazine has an interactive chart that compares global house prices - nominal, real, against average income, against rent ...

Sagging commodities see drop in foreign investment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
... correlation between the amount of assets under sub-custody and the performance of the mining sector in Australia. FSC chief economist James Bond confirmed that the slowing commodities boom and lower interest rates were probably behind this lag. However ...

Deutsche Bank dismisses mining fears

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
... commodity price levels but if there are some price rises we could see some real outperformance," he said. However AMP chief economist Shane Oliver does not share Deutsche Bank's optimism and believes the stage is set for another RBA rate cut. "Given ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
... while, the main index on the stock exchange in Milan dived 2.10 per cent to 16,977.76 points. The tumble came after US economist Nouriel Roubini warned that instability in Italy over the future of Silvio Berlusconi could trigger early elections next ...

Withdrawal anxiety

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013