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Lump sum rules 'utterly unsustainable': Sherry

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... vibrant fixed annuity market would not be easy. "Everyone in the market wants fixed annuities, but it's not easy. But interest rates are low at the moment. And the other thing is there is no supply of instruments." He also said it was tricky to get consumers ...

All about the slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... accelerating, and one could argue that the United Kingdom is strong enough to withstand a small adjustment upwards in interest rates. Markit Economics' Composite PMI index for the UK rose to a reading of 59.1 in July from 58.4 in the previous month ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... for a fourth straight session as investors weighed up a possible escalation of conflict in Ukraine and potential interest rates hikes in the US. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 6.6 points, or 0.12 per cent, at 5,512 points. The broader All Ordinaries ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... lower as fears of an escalation of the Ukraine conflict and a potential move by the US Federal Reserve to increase interest rates impacts the local exchange. The market impact of reports Russia is massing troops on the Ukraine border has been heightened ...

Tit-for-tats and all that jazz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... higher-than-predicted 57.1 reading in the ISM manufacturing index. These positives brought back that negative feeling about interest rates anew... so they say. Not the bond market though, it's not perturbed or even excited about it. This is because if ...

RBA leaves interest rates on hold

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... Glenn Stevens maintained his familiar phrase that "the most prudent course is likely to be a period of stability in interest rates". Continued low interest rates were expected to help growth strengthen over time, although growth was expected to be "a ...

US bond market says not yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... China to slow its economic growth, there's the US economy growing strongly that the Fed could start jacking up interest rates any minute now, there's overvaluation, there's a bubble, there's Greenspan warning of "a significant correction," there's this ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... Australian market looks set to open flat following a mixed performance on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve kept interest rates near zero and surprisingly strong second-quarter US economic growth data. At 0807 AEST on Thursday, the September share ...

WAM Capital posts record profit

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... view of the market is more positive, contingent on increased economic activity resulting from historically low interest rates," he added.

Wall Street snubs the IMF

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... Global growth could be weaker for longer, given the lack of robust momentum in advanced economies despite very low interest rates and the easing of other brakes to the recovery. In some major emerging market economies, the negative growth effects of ...