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Nothing below seven percent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013
... growth to fall below 7.0%. This is no news for us gentle readers. I've been barking about this ever since Li went to Washington and said so. But who cares what I say, I'm only half Chinese anyways - making the probability of moi being correct 50/50. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... 30.75 points, to 1,992.65. Global equities rose this week after Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke told lawmakers in Washington that the bank's $US85 billion-a-month bond-buying scheme would be kept in place as long as the economy needed it. WELLINGTON ...

Market Wrap AM

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... out of the US appears to have been the catalyst for this push higher, with markets keeping a close ear on events in Washington and the second day of Bernanke's testimony," said Michael Hewson, Senior Market Analyst at CMC Markets UK. At close, London's ...

Australian economy "professionally managed": World Bank

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... Series, an annual finance forum in Sydney from The Economist's intelligence unit via link-up from the World Bank's Washington DC headquarters, Basu said Australia's relative strength compared to other industrialised economies had stood it in good stead. ...

IFM beefs up Debt Investment team

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2013
... assistant vice president for Restructuring Business Support with Barclays, and holds a Bachelor of Arts from George Washington University. She joins investment director David Cooper and associate Hiran Wanigasekera to build IFM's infrastructure debt ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
... below parity with the greenback which surged on persistent speculation about a winding back of quantitative easing by Washington ahead of US retail sales data due later on Monday. Tokyo rose 1.20 per cent, or 174.67 points, to 14,782.21 as the US dollar ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
... 22,580.77, while Seoul ended down 0.20 per cent, or 3.86 points, to 1,940.70. The main focus was Friday's release in Washington of data showing the world's biggest economy expanded 2.5 per cent in the January-March quarter. While the figures from the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
... for global equities and commodities as dealers keep an eye on a meeting of world central bank and finance chiefs in Washington. Investors seemed to brush off a second straight loss on Wall Street, while gold prices climbed after hitting two-year lows ...

China's turn to provide buy opportunities

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... vice chair Janet Yellen, in her speech before the National Association for Business Economics Policy Conference in Washington last night, reminded all and sundry that QE will go on until there is a significantly visible improvement in the labour market. ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... 1.42 per cent, weaker at 5,028.5. NEW YORK - US stocks have opened modestly lower as traders remained cautious after Washington moved into austerity mode with the launch of the steep sequester spending cuts. Ten minutes into trade on Monday, the Dow ...