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Australia: which way now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
We've gone a long way, baby! A very long way... down. It seems so long ago and far away now but, it had only been less than four months when the All Ordinaries index looked set to break the 6,000-point barrier. It was only 0.8% away (45.2 points) from ...

Empire State bombs out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
Whoa! If this is an indication of things to come, then you can forget a lift-off in September, or in December... perhaps, forget all about it for all of next year. Yes Virginia, I refer to the drop in the Empire State Manufacturing Index. And girl ...

Easing cycle over for now

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
The Reserve Bank's two-pronged monetary easing measures look to have come to an end but our central bankers will remain watchful of the currency, according to Goldman Sachs Asset Management executive director and global fixed income portfolio manager ...

PBOC does an SNB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... in the year to July - not a great deal slower than June's and expectations' 10.6% rate but stronger than March (10.2%), April (10.0%) and May (10.1%); Industrial production up by 6.0% over the same period - down from 6.8% in the previous month, yet sturdier ...

Indian economy accelerating/slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
It wasn't only the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) that didn't surprise with its unchanged policy decision yesterday, that other reserve bank did too. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced no change in policy settings following the conclusion of ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower after falls on US and European markets following disappointing US home sales and China factory output data. At 0750 AEST on Monday, the September share price index futures contract was down 49 points at ...

NAB refunds $25m to Navigator Wrap customers

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
NAB will refund roughly $25 million to 62,000 customers on its Navigator Wrap platform following an independent review. The review investigated errors associated with income and tax allocations on account closure from September 2001 to April 2015. These ...

SMSFs keeping cash for better markets

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
Self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) stowed away $56 billion in excess cash during the 12 months to April 2015, the highest amount in seven years. Billions that would have been invested if it were not for market uncertainty is reflective of a wider ...

Gold's no longer gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
Well they tried, and they tried, and they tried, but it seems that there's just no bringing back gold's shine. Gold was hit for six - that is, prices dropped for a sixth consecutive day overnight - down to a low of US$1,088.05 per ounce (the lowest ...

Class appoints three board members

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
Three new board members have joined Class, the provider of cloud-based self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) administration software Class Super. Class chairman Barry Lambert said the appointments will be invaluable as the company prepares for an ...