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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... recession. It was the steepest slippage since a record 18.3 per cent contraction in January March 2009. St George Bank chief economist Besa Deda said that even though around 18.5 per cent of Australia's exports go to Japan, the Australian dollar has ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... 2010. The Australian dollar shed around 0.2 US cents shortly after the minutes were released. RBC Capital Markets senior economist Su-Lin Ong said the language used by the RBA was slightly more dovish than the market was expecting. "Following the very ...

Alpha puts its money where its mouth is

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... help "restore logic to the investment landscape." Saul Eslake, program director, Grattan Institute and former chief economist at ANZ will give a balanced view of Australian and global markets and what to look out for when investing in the Australian ...

A-dollar one-point-seven-o

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... they do, then it's the time to sell (or buy). And this goes all the way back to the Great Depression when well-known US economist and Yale University economics professor Irving Fisher declared that, "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently ...

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
On the last trading day of April, I opened my daily piece with: "... this is investors' last day to decide whether or not to "sell in May and go away"." And concluded that, "... it might be prudent to bag some of those profits and go away in May. Just ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
The Australian market is expected to open lower on Thursday following strongly negative leads from overseas markets overnight. On the ASX 24 at 0731 AEST, the June share price index futures contract was 22 points lower at 4,703. In economics news on ...

Swan names new ASIC, ACCC heads

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
ASIC commissioner Greg Medcraft and economist Rod Sims have been recommended as new regulatory heads by Treasurer Wayne Swan. In a statement from the Treasury, current ASIC commissioner Greg Medcraft has been put forward as the next ASIC chairman in ...

ETF provider soothes market over risk issues

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... complexity, lack of transparency and counter-party risks have also been flagged by Bank for International Settlements economist Srichander Ramaswamy in a paper called Market Structures and Systemic Risks of Exchange-Traded Funds, prompting international ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
The Australian market has received positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with Wall Street and commodities finishing higher, after mixed data in the US was offset by strong earnings reports. On the ASX 24 at 0655 AEST, the June share price ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
... "Obviously, the terms of trade story is one of the fundamental stories for the Australian economic outlook," St George chief economist Besa Deda said. The terms of trade measures the ratio of export prices to import prices. "One of the growth engines ...