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Consumers overwhelmingly positive about super

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... supported superannuation, a figure which FSC chief executive John Brogden described as "a very big endorsement," adding: "Banks would die to have numbers like that." However, both Brogden and ING Direct chief executive Vaughn Richtor said a great deal ...

Hold fire: Emerging market debt set for correction

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... combination of cheap money and quantitative easing pumping liquidity into the system. Cheap funding freed emerging market central banks to relax their fiscal policies and allowed companies to expand aggressively. However, the tide of liquidity is now ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... BOJ (Bank of Japan)," Mr Shamu said. "Overall, it seems the global economy are hoping for some cheap funds from central banks to keep things going." Telstra was the largest company to go ex-dividend on Wednesday and shed 17 cents, or three per cent to ...

Government tables FoFA bill in House of Reps

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... legislation "is aimed at locking into law the dodgy deal that they [the Coalition] have done with Clive Palmer to back the big banks over consumers." "Choice, Industry Super Australia, ASIC and the Government's own hand-picked chair of the Financial ...

Stagflation is real in Brazil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... after trading as high 2,005.04 points while we slept.... "the only explanation I can find is the love it's found" in central banks' forward guidance of easy money going forward. But it's not only Wall Street that's benefitting, Brazil's stock market ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... also issuing earnings reports. In Australia on Tuesday, share market closed almost flat as modest gains among the major banks outweighed weakness in the big miners pressured by falling iron ore prices. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index gained 2.7 points ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
... Fortescue Metals dipped 1.5 cents to $4.325, while Atlas Iron gained 0.25 cents to $59.75. In other company news, the big banks were all up, with Commonwealth Bank gaining 15 cents to $80.66, ANZ rising eight cents to $33.30, Westpac up eight cents to ...

Voya appoints head of emerging market debt

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... Investors are thinking about the best ways to be positioned in the market, especially in light of the next moves by central banks around the world. Voya IM's active decision-making process is focused on seeking out the best investments from a broad landscape ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... would cut 350 jobs in a restructure and maintained first half net profit, which was up one per cent to $173 million. The banks were up, with ANZ gaining 3.5 cents to $33.505, NAB rising five cents to $34.51, Commonwealth Bank lifting 24 cents to $80.85 ...

Easy money to fill in the slack at the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... unemployment is at the heart of the macro dynamics that shape short- and medium-term inflation, meaning it also affects central banks. Indeed, even when there are no risks to price stability, but unemployment is high and social cohesion at threat, pressure ...