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ABS cutbacks bad idea

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
The ABS will be cutting back surveys and sampling depth in key economic areas as it meet savings targets outlined in the Federal Budget. Research and development for labour market, social, prices and demography statistics will be wound back, as will ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher today after the the Dow and S&P 500 finished slightly stronger on Wall Street overnight. At 0756 AEST on the Sydney Futures exchange, the September share price index was up 17 points to 5,210. In ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open lower after industrial metals and gold fell in overnight trading. At 0750 AEST on the Sydney Futures exchange, the September share price index was down 13 points at 5,264. In company news today, Brambles ...

Asia will weather global slowdown: EFIC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2008
... global economic slowdown due to growing domestic demand and rising intra Asian trade levels. Roger Donnelly, EFIC chief economist, said most economists agreed East Asian growth could fall by 1.5 per cent to 8.5 per cent in aggregate and China could shed ...

Oil speculators push up prices 50 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
... happening to oil prices. The speculators have moved in and pushed prices way above where they should be. Shane Oliver, chief economist and chief investment strategist at AMP Capital Investors, told ABC Radio this morning that oil prices should be about ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
... around the country with Morning Star Investment Conference 2008 in Sydney, while in Adelaide, ANZ Banking Group Ltd chief economist Saul Eslake addresses the Financial Services Institute of Australasia. American Express chief financial officer research ...

Big lift in company corporate governance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2008
... major concern. But adding subtlety, the practice is much more entrenched in the US than Australia. According to The Economist magazine, more than 60 per cent of S&P500 companies have a common chief executive and chairman and only 16 per cent have an ...

Super savings on track

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2008
... Bank was to take seriously suggestions they should relax their inflation target zone, warned Dr Shane Oliver, chief economist and chief investment strategist at AMP Capital Investors. "A rough estimate indicates that a sustained 2 per cent rise in inflation ...

Oil frenzy is storm before the calm

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2008
... vortex created by rising prices. "$US150 a barrel is now just a few weeks trading away," said Dr Shane Oliver, chief economist and chief investment strategist for AMP Capital Investors. Oliver is still however expecting slowing economic activity around ...

The fight over how to fight inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
... should be compensating people for inflation rather than seeking to conquer it. These advocates include a former chief economist of the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz and now Columbia University professor, who told ABC Radio that "countries that follow inflation ...