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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... increasingly uncertain economic climate. Copper supplies remain tight and are eroding due to declining ore grades, long lead times before new projects are ramped up and increasing incidences of industrial action as workers seek higher rewards from the ...

Asian counterweight

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
... consuming and companies erecting more buildings and shopping malls. I would imagine the same is true for China and India times ten or more. This is good news for us Aussies. Oi! Oi! Oi!

Brand fit for a boardroom

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
... - have built and capitalised on their brand, and the same principles can apply in financial services. Even the New York Times and Businessweek bestseller, 'Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office 101', devoted an entire chapter on the subject. "Building ...

Insto fears over high frequency trading set to grow

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... thought to take place courtesy of high frequency trading, fear of a new breed of leakage is rife among institutions. "In times gone by the standard points of leakage were talking to your standard sales trader, other clients, hedge funds or proprietary ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... per cent, Germany's DAX dropped 2.27 per cent and London's FTSE-100 lost 1.63 per cent. But a report in London's Financial Times that Italian officials had held talks with China over a potential purchase of Italian bonds caused US stocks to erase their ...

Damned to default

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... lower to down 5.3% this year from earlier estimates of down 3.9%. Double duh! If I said it once, I've said it a thousand times - how could you expect an economy to grow while at the same time implementing severe government spending cutbacks and raising ...

Not looking good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... central bank announced last week that it would not allow its currency to appreciate beyond 1.20 Swiss francs to the euro. Times like these, the prudent thing to do is to stay on the defensive until visibility becomes clearer and until fiscal and monetary ...

Obama punts on US$300bn jobs package

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... the Census Bureau announced a July monthly increase of just 0.5%. Unemployment appearing frozen solid on 14 million - 23 times the number in Australia - forced the president's hand. Funding for the program won't be directly through new borrowings however ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
... of 2011, dragged down by a rapid decline in German performance and a stagnant France economy. Gold, seen as a safe bet in times of economic uncertainty, jumped on Tuesday to a record high price above $US1,921 an ounce on the London Bullion Market. It ...

Trouble building in the housing market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
... up. I think that is a social problem as much as an economic one," he said. The supply constraint, reported the Canberra Times, is that the Housing Industry Association said this 179,000 annual target is 29,000 more homes than it has been able to build ...