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Growing credit crunch casualty list

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2007
... Ben Bernanke, reiterated the downside risk to growth going forward, saying housing will remain a significant drag on US growth into 2008. Bernanke said it was too early to assess the extent to which household and business spending would be affected and ...

Under-building down under

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2007
... stood at 2.9 per cent, by the end 2006 it had further slowed to 2.6 per cent and latest figures to end June 2007 have US growth at just 1.9 per cent. The US housing market is now correcting from a period of over building, tightening monetary policy and ...

European vacation for investor capital

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2007
... Index's 3.8 per cent. The implications go beyond the dozen countries that have the euro as their common currency. With US growth slowing a broader and deeper global penetration would not only be timely for bullish investors, but having global growth ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
... yearly report that forecast a fall in global economic growth from 5.6 per cent last year to 5 per cent this year and for US growth to soften from the 3.3 per cent achieved last year to 2.2 per cent this year has been followed by the announcement by the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
... cent this year and 3 per cent next year. The IMF global growth estimate is presently 4.9 per cent, a 1 per cent fall in US growth is said to currently reduce global growth by 0.16 per cent. Piracy of US software, music and film is the topic of the complaint ...

HOSTPLUS joins the Collingwood Magpies team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2007
HOSTPLUS has taken another bold step in its high profile brand marketing strategy, partnering with the AFL Collingwood Magpies on a number of strategies designed to benefit both parties and HOSTPLUS members. As part of the partnership, HOSTPLUS becomes ...

Sovereign MF building up its aged care portfolio

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2006
Boutique property funds manager and developer Sovereign MF has acquired a $5.2 million aged care facility for its Sovereign Viculus Aged Care Property Fund. The Evanelia by the Sea aged care facility is located in Parkdale, Victoria, and is made up ...

Opes Prime appoints new chairman

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2006
Specialist securities lending and equity financing solutions provider Opes Prime Group has announced the appointment of a new non-executive chairman to help drive growth into 2007. Peter Gillooly, former head of Tattersalls, will join Opes Prime as ...

US slowdown won't hurt China

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2006
Fitch Ratings is optimistic China's economic growth will be unaffected by slowing US growth. James McCormack, head of Asia sovereigns at Fitch ratings, told the Global Structured Finance Conference 2006 Asia, being held in Beijing this week, that a ...

Flying high with Pegasus

Adelaide-based Pegasus Growth Strategy Fund has posted a high 61 per cent return in the year to October proving there is merit behind micro-cap investing. A look at the fund's track record shows that it is certainly leaving up to its name, which refers ...