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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
... Asian lead and then driven lower as Hungary said it would keep its public finances under control but failed to announce a budget package, as expected. Better-than-expected April industrial orders in Germany, Europe's strongest economy, provided some ...

IFM global infra assets outperform

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
... head of Industry Funds Management (IFM), Brett Himbury, said the group's infrastructure assets are performing ahead of budget. "We're nearly at the end of the financial year and every single one of those assets, particularly the global portfolio, is ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
... gained a boost from China's reassurances that it was not considering cutting its holdings of eurozone debt amid the mounting budget crisis in the 16-nation bloc. China, the world's largest holder of foreign-exchange reserves, called the report in the ...

PIMCO favours Latin American and Asian bonds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
... levels of debt and relatively low labour costs. Compare that to Greece, with very high public sector employment and massive budget deficit." He said PIMCO remains cautious about emerging Europe sovereign debt as well, referring to countries including ...

Resistance grows to SG increase

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
... his call by Fiona Reynolds, chief executive of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees. But Anderson said, "Budget allocations identifying the superannuation levy as a cost to the Commonwealth arise not because the government is paying the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
... Friday for a public holiday. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand share market failed to get a lift from a well received government budget and slipped for a fifth successive session as offshore markets continued to weaken. The benchmark NZX-50 index closed down ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
... sentiment dropped sharply in response to the latest rise in interest rates and to a lesser degree, last week's federal budget, according to the Westpac-Melbourne Institute survey of consumer sentiment, the results of which were released on Wednesday. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
The Australian share market looks set to fall when it opens on Wednesday after Wall Street resumed its slide due to the falling value of the euro. At 0746 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 52 points lower at ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
... its May 4 monetary policy meeting. Treasury Secretary Ken Henry delivers the Australian Business Economists' annual post-Budget address. RBA Head of Financial Stability Department Luci Ellis is to address the Australian Financial Review Residential Property ...

Super funds could fill resource capital shortfall: report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2010
... $1.2 trillion invested in superannuation funds. It may even be easier to get this funding after the Federal Government's Budget proposed increasing the superannuation guarantee (SG) from 9 per cent to 12 per cent, said the report. The adoption of the ...