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In the eyes of the beholder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
... rose by more than expected to 17.6 in February from 15.2 in the previous month. What has changed? This index has crossed above zero and into expansion territory since September last year. Wall Street liked the 0.3 per cent rise in the leading economic ...

Happy days are back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
... gain to 18.0 was expected. All components except for delivery time and inventories were in positive territory. A reading above zero indicates expansion. It would be a fallacy to extrapolate based on one good trading day. More challenges lie ahead to ...

Jobs full recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
... fruit or working on farms will qualify automatically for a second year's visa.' It added, 'With unemployment hovering just above 5%, these trends have worried the central bank because of inflationary pressures stoked by higher wage demands.' In March ...

Mercer recommends pullback on global equities

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... built in a reasonable amount of expectation around good news in future earnings, this has squeezed out the potential for above average returns," said David Stuart, head of Mercer's Dynamic Asset Allocation team in Australia and New Zealand. This means ...

Contribs rate during GFC still 23 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... despite the GFC. But voluntary member contributions fell 18 per cent or by nearly $9 billion to $41 billion. Meanwhile, above-SG and salary sacrifice contributions paid through employers increased 12 per cent or by $3 billion to $28 billion. SG payments ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... 4,520.7, the lowest since November 5. NEW YORK - US stocks closed higher on Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average back above 10,000 on hopes that the European Union will help Greece manage its growing debt burden. Global markets bounced back ...

RARE eyes Indian and Mexican assets

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... months to December, beating the benchmark's 39.6 per cent. Since inception in July 2008, the fund has returned 43.3 per cent, above the benchmark's 15.5 per cent. Meanwhile, Shaw is erring on the cautious side regarding Brazil investments, aiming to ...

Blue chips back in vogue

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... Equities Fund, managed by Taylor, has $1.45 billion in assets and returned 43.38 per cent in the year to 31 December. This is above the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation index's 37.03 per cent. Over a three year period, the fund returned 4.35 per cent, again ...

Market Wrap - Morning

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... December. The January reading was below the level of 51 that analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had been expecting. Any number above 50 signals growth. At settlement, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 26.30 points, or 0.26 per cent, at 10,270.55. ...

RBA mixes its game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... 2.1 per cent in Q4. More worrying, the RBA's measures of core inflation - trimmed mean and weighted median - both remains above its 2-3 per cent target band. The RBA knows this, "CPI inflation has risen somewhat recently as temporary factors that had ...