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Global deflation - the next worry?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... economic growth... with tame inflation. Case in point, America's annual headline inflation rate remained at a low 1.7% in September (the same as in August) due largely to a 0.7% month-on-month drop in energy prices in September and 2.6% decline in August. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on Wall Street with investors still nervous after the volatility of the past few weeks. At 0805 AEDT on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was down 28 points at 5,349. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
The Australian share market has opened 1% higher after Wall Street rallied on talk of broader monetary stimulus in Europe and good home sales figures. Upbeat US home sales data and speculation that the European Central Bank may buy corporate bonds to ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... cent, Madrid climbed 2.4 and Athens soared 5.6 per cent. The Chinese economy grew by 7.3 per cent year-on-year in July-September - lower than the 7.5-per cent expansion in the previous three months and the slowest since the 6.6 per cent in the first ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
The Australian share market has opened higher on strong US leads and iron ore price gains. US stocks extended the rally that began late last week with the Dow Jones Industrial Average finishing 0.12 per cent higher on Monday. Wall Street's gains and ...

Van Eyk goes into liquidation

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
Van Eyk creditors have voted to put the business into liquidation following a recommendation from administrator Moore Stephens, which has just signed term sheets for the sale of the van Eyk Australia and New Zealand businesses. A Moore Stephens spokesperson ...

Chocolate biscuits and animal spirits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
All is clear again on the Wall Street front. Central bank assurances have silenced the Johnny Littles wailing that the sky is falling. We could only imagine now what would have happened to equity markets and in turn to sentiment and then the economies ...

Van Eyk starts due diligence with potential buyer

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
Van Eyk administrator Moore Stephens has entered into an exclusivity arrangement with a potential buyer of the van Eyk Australian business which is now conducting due diligence. Moore Stephens will nevertheless recommend moving the research business ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
The Australian share market had made strong gains in opening trade as investors snap up cheaper stocks following recent falls. Comments overnight from the Federal Reserve Bank's St Louis president Jamie Bullard suggesting that the US not scale back ...

The pathway to professionalism

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
Large financial institutions are raising education standards for their financial advisers. For those already holding the right qualifications it will be business as usual, but for those who need to do some studying, Laura Millan has come up with a guide ...