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Tis the season to be jolly and to spend: AXA

Australians are the world's fourth most generous gift-givers with retirees estimated to spend at least $1.1 billion over the holidays on Christmas presents. Investment house AXA's research shows that retirees will spend at least $580 on gifts, which ...

Daily Economic Update

Australian consumer confidence fell by 2.7 per cent to 104.7 in November from 107.6 in the previous month. According to Westpac, concern over higher interest rates and the fall in house prices were chiefly responsible for the drop in consumer confidence. ...

Business investments overtakes consumer spending

Today's economic data reports re-affirm consensus views that Australian business investment has become the major driving force in the economy, taking over the mantle from consumer spending and housing. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported ...

Daily Economic Update

A draft of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) semi-annual economic outlook - to be published at the end of this month - revealed upgrades to its earlier economic growth forecasts. The draft showed 2005 and 2006 growth ...

Perpetual appoints former Credit Suisse platform manager

Perpetual Investments have appointed a former Credit Suisse AM platform manager as the new head of their retail platform WealthFocus. Before joining Perpetual, Barry Porter was responsible for CSAM's MasterWrap. He also worked as the manager of Investment ...

Daily Economic Update

The US leading indicators rose by 0.9 per cent in October, more than negating the 0.8 per cent decline in the previous month. This is the first rise in four months and slightly better-than-expectations for a 0.8 per cent increase. Seven of the 10 indicators ...

Zurich sends team to help US hurricane victims

Zurich Financial Services Australia is sending a local team across the Atlantic to help deal with claims related to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The four men taking on the month long commitment are Charles Foley and Neville Norman from Brisbane and ...

Book delivers message: Nice Girls Don't Get Rich

Women need to change their pre-programmed, psychological behavior if they want to get ahead financially and stop damaging their monetary goals. This is the message in a new book by American bestselling author, Lois Frankel. Frankel's book, 'Nice Girls ...

Moderate growth outlook for US: Fidelity

The outlook for US economic growth is likely to be only moderate, but pockets of stronger growth may still be there for investors who know how to find it, says Katherine Collins Fidelity's US equities portfolio manager for their global equities fund. ...

RBA keeps rates on hold

As expected, the Reserve Bank of Australia left interest rates unchanged at 5.5 per cent following yesterday's Board meeting. While futures trading suggests the official cash rate would remain steady through to the first half of 2006, some are however ...