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CBA posts $4.27bn half year profit

AAP & ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... The group's wealth management earnings as average funds under administration (FUA) grew by 22% and 89% of funds performed above benchmark. For the half year to 31 December 2013, the wealth management division brought in $395 billion, more than any other ...

You say threshold, I say trigger

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... range for the federal funds rate of 0 to 1/4 percent will be appropriate at least as long as the unemployment rate remains above 6-1/2 percent, inflation between one and two years ahead is projected to be no more than a half percentage point above the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
... Street on Friday. The local market has started the day strongly, with both the S&P/ASX200 and the All Ordinaries pushing back above the 5200 point mark for the first time in more than a week. IG market strategist Stan Shamu said the market was taking ...

Credit Suisse goes "wild" in its 2014 outlook

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... to grow strongly. Credit Suisse also played with the idea that "the downward trend stops, and the Aussie appreciates back above 1.10 vs the US dollar which has been the post float high." "A rally in the Aussie to new highs may occur if the Fed stops ...

CBA: Expect higher inflation

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... index into its composite domestic and imported inflation rates tells a different story. "Domestic inflation has been stuck above 3% for about 10 years now, while the imported inflation rate has reflected the ups and downs of import prices as driven by ...

Subjected to interpretation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... expecting only a slight dip to 56.0 from December's 56.5 reading. Markets turned a blind eye on the fact that the index remained above 50 - the line that separates expansion from contraction - in January and therefore, points to continued well, expansion ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
... Institute for Supply Management's index of services sector activity rose a full percentage point to 54.0 in January, slightly above the 53.8 level expected by analysts. Analysts do not expect significant market swings ahead of the Labor Department report ...

Industry groups self-interest caused FoFA problems

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
... groups lobbying intensely to ensure that the interests of their particular sector, company or association are met - even if above those of the industry or consumer," he said. Tynan said that with a pool of retirement savings of more than $1.6 trillion ...

I swear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
... to 54. It would have been so easy to dismiss this one bad number - it was distorted (blame it on the polar vortex) and at above 50, US manufacturing is still expanding - but not if you factor in the prevailing "mood of doom" in the financial markets ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
... in January. The Institute for Supply Management's purchasing managers index sank to 51.3 from 56.5 in December, not far above the 50 level between expansion and contraction. LONDON - European stocks have tumbled as lacklustre reports on Chinese and US ...