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When Japan is blah, the Eurozone is ugh and China is wow

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... that the economic roadmap ahead is based on a "return to the old normal". On a five-year-trend growth forecast of the country's top exports, he said coal will fall down the list (-3.7% growth) while business travel and financial services - while coming ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... main stock markets have closed higher as Greece's new anti-austerity government sought support for a renegotiation of the country's 240 billion euro ($A350.39 billion) bailout. Greek stocks ended the day up 4.6 per cent, after Greek Finance Minister ...

CBA is top banking brand for 2014

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) is the country's highest-value banking brand for 2014, according to the Brand Finance Banking 500 study. Despite a year of controversy surrounding its financial planning division, the bank has retaken the number ...

Asia already benefiting from fall in oil prices

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... billion for every US$1 drop in the price of oil. Given that India imports 85% of its oil, lower prices will also benefit the country's terms of trade and current account deficit. BlackRock also said that emerging market producers such as Venezuela, Russia ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... CAC 40 fell 0.59 per cent to 4,604.25 points. Plummeting world oil prices were largely to blame for the fall in the 19-country eurozone, already beset by weak economic growth and high unemployment, the EU's data agency Eurostat said. The euro weakened ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... cent to 10,737.87 points. While official data showing German unemployment fell in January to the lowest level since the country was reunited in 1990, inflation turned negative for the first time in more than five years, dropping to 0.3 per cent. The ...

Asset owners throwing money away in hidden fees

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... asymmetry, a lack of transparency and intermediaries getting involved," Staub said. "The issues are exactly the same in each country." He added that even investors that pride themselves on getting a good headline fee on their investments are often looking ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... as "solid" but pledged a "patient" approach to raising interest rates. LONDON - Greek stocks took a hammering after the country's new anti-austerity government pressed home demands for debt relief and rolled back the privatisation program, but European ...

Global investment bank sets up shop in Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... director. Rowe has over 26 years of investment banking experience. He joins the group from CIMB Australia, where he was country head and head of investment banking before that. Oscar Ludwigson has been appointed managing director in Houlihan Lokey's ...

Happy Australian dollar Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... the economy of this land girth by sea... except for stoking the property prices, that is. So much so that three of the country's big four banks - ANZ, NAB and Westpac - are predicting not just one but two interest rate cuts this year. The CBA stands ...