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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... international merchandise imports for May data. The Commonwealth Bank's business sales indicator for April is due out sa is the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Leading Indexes of Economic Activity Meanwhile, the Reserve Banks of Australia's (RBA) head of ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012
... by 0.33 per cent at 6161.24 and Paris's CAC 40 added 0.14 per cent to 3046.91. In local economic news on Wednesday, the Westpac/Melbourne Institute Survey of Consumer Sentiment was up 0.3 per cent at 95.6 index points for June. The mining giants all ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012
... gained after the European Central Bank backed a bank deposit guarantee proposal. In local economic news on Wednesday, the Westpac/Melbourne Institute Survey of Consumer Sentiment is due out. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012
... Securities senior adviser Stuart Smith said worries about debt-ridden Greece and a weak economic growth outlook from a Westpac-Melbourne Institute report were behind the local market's declines. However, Mr Smith said, he expected the growth in China ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012
... Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was down 19 points at 4,116. In economic news on Wednesday, the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Leading Indexes of Economic Activity is due to be released and the World Bank gives its latest review of ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012
... Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude for delivery in May jumped $1.54 to $104.44 a barrel. In economic news on Wednesday, the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Leading Indexes of Economic Activity is due to be released. In equities news, the Bank of Queensland Bank ...

What price surplus?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
... the December quarter from the low digits during the "GDP around trend" years. The recent slump in confidence reported by Westpac/Melbourne Institute suggests that C would continue to weaken in the coming months.So far The expected RBA interest rate cut ...

The Fed, the ECB and the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... Australia (RBA) should be cutting by 50 basis points - not the usual 25 bips - and now. The latest Westpac Melbourne Institute consumer confidence survey underscores growing clamour for an RBA rate cut. Australian consumer confidence fell to an eight-month ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was down 56 points at 4,251. In economic news on Wednesday, the Westpac/Melbourne Institute Survey of Consumer Sentiment for April and the Australian Bureau of Statistics housing finance figures ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2012
... Wednesday, the March share price index futures contract was down nine points at 4,275. In economic news on Wednesday, the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Leading Indexes of Economic Activity is due out, as is the Australian Bureau of Statistics' international ...