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Market to open flat

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... per cent), Target (+0.5 per cent) and Williams-Sonoma (+0.7 per cent). Gap rose 1.9 per cent. Entertainment giant 21st Century Fox fell 0.2 per cent on news that chief executive Rupert Murdoch plans to step down and hand the job to his son James, with ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... Berlin. HONG KONG - Tokyo stocks have chalked up a 12th straight gain Monday, their best run in more than a quarter of a century, while Shanghai and Hong Kong have rebounded as data indicated a pick-up in Chinese manufacturing. The euro edged down as ...

Falling cash rate puts gold in 'sweet spot'

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... long run inflation protection make up for the lack of income, with gold rising by over 8% per annum since the turn of the century. Not only is that better than cash, it's also better than property and even the Australian share market over that time p ...

Legalsuper finds savings in manager reshuffle

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... State (cash and enhanced cash), the QIC Inflation Plus fund (fixed interest), Hyperion (Australian equities), American Century (overseas equities), Sanders (overseas equities) and Schroders (emerging market equities). Legalsuper took the decision to ...

When?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... slide has forced closures in the oil industry. According to Baker Hughes - "A top-tier oilfield service company with a century-long track record" - the US oil rig count totalled 734 as at 17 April, down from 1,831 the same time last year. Not surprisingly ...

Platinum AM appoints independent director

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... independent directors and will join the other four executive directors at the company's board. Menzies is also a director of Century Australia Investments and chairman of the Centre for Quantum Computation & Communication Technology. He retired as a ...

Investor sentiment shifting overseas

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... convened this morning. "Australia is not seeing the end of a once in a generation mining boom but the end of a once in a century mining boom," he said. Another indicator raising concerns for Australia is that even though we are one of a small group of ...

Easing here, there and everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... PM Li likes, hold on to your heads". Perhaps, it was the January "the slowest in decades, the weakest in a quarter of a century, the missed target 7.4% GDP growth in 2014 headlines that prompted the PBOC to act. But nah, an exclusive report published ...

When Japan is blah, the Eurozone is ugh and China is wow

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... global economist at Principal Global Investors, compared what's happening to the markets and economies today to a 15th century spring-driven clock. Like the clock, it would be hard to control the unwinding of the markets. However, there will be plenty ...

China growth as Li likes it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
... further hammer in the bad news - China's 7.4% 2014 growth is the lowest in decades, the slowest in nearly a quarter of a century and it missed the Politburo's 7.5% target. You want more? Here's more. The just-released IMF "World Economic Outlook" shows ...