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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011
... Australia, the market on Thursday closed flat after disappointing jobs data prompted a selloff ahead of economic news from China and the US. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed up 4.6 points, or 0.11 per cent, at 4,188 points, while the broader All ...

Inflation not currency worrying the RBA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
... driving the AUD more than rates. "Prices for key Australian commodities have remained very high thus far, with growth in China continuing to look solid. As a result, Australia's terms of trade are now at very high levels and national income has been ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
... while Shanghai shed 1.96 per cent, or 49.54 points, to 2,478.74, with traders citing fears about persistent inflation in China and its possible dampening effect on growth. Markets in Asia were taking their lead from Wall Street's performance on Friday ...

It's official, Rudd saved Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... period. Agriculture and services each contributed 0.3 percentage points - three times as much as mining." Mineral exports to China were still important, but were not enough to offset a broader slump in commodity exports at the time. But this has a flipside ...

IMF just as baffled as we are

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... about to launch a wave of fiscal contraction that will drive down growth and push us into sustained recession. This means China's demand for Australian resources will in time slow faster than expected, the Commonwealth Treasury will get to work revising ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... banking activities following the 2008-2009 financial crisis would not get underway until 2015. Data earlier on Thursday showed China's PMI rose to 50.9 in August from 50.7 the previous month, which was the lowest in more than two years. European markets ...

QIC eyes Asian mandates through new ambassador

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
QIC has appointed former Australian Ambassador to China, Geoff Raby, to help win more mandates from Asian institutional investors. Raby retired from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade earlier this month after five years as Ambassador to China ...

Ideas count and Australia is up to 69,000

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... patents registered and 4.7 million of them or 77% came from the leading nations of Japan, the US, South Korea, Germany and China. Japan holding 2 million and the US 1.4 million, demonstrates how these two nations despite being on the edge of the economic ...

Cloud software brings pay-per-audit revolution

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... multinational group operates in more than 26 countries covering the UK, Europe, North America, South Africa, Australia, India and China, it says on its website.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... trying to rein in inflation, which hit a three-year-high 6.5 per cent in July. Banks bucked the trend on bargain-hunting. China Construction Bank rose by 0.9 per cent to 4.54 yuan even after Bank of America said it would sell roughly half of its 10 per ...