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Morning market wrap: US stocks extend gains

... production and housing starts data also gave markets hope economic activity was on track to strengthen in the second half. Treasury bonds subsequently ended weaker for a second consecutive day, the yield on the 10-year bond jumping to 3.26% from 3.17%. ...

Morning market wrap: Data spurs strong gains in US stocks

... Japanese yen, the euro and the Swiss franc, and bounced off multi-year lows against sterling and the Canadian dollar. Treasury bond yields also backed higher after the data, although markets continue to anticipate at least a 25 basis point cut at the ...

Sherry accuses Government of "another major super bungle"

... would claim their super payments, but Senate Estimates Hearings have confirmed this figure has been vastly overstated." "Treasury has refused to reveal the extent of the hole but super funds estimate that the take-up rate has been no more than 10% to ...

Morning market wrap: US Stocks Slump Friday As Confidence Wanes

... as the disappointing US economic data offset a strong sales report from supermarket giant Tesco. In US bond markets, Treasury yields continued their dramatic declines of recent weeks. The yield on the 2-year note closed at a record low of 1.07% and compared ...

Morning Market Wrap: US Shares Finish Modestly Higher

... to 430,000 from 447,000 the week previously, although still consistent with weak employment growth. Yields on 10-year Treasury bonds subsequently fell to 3.16%, a 45 year low. All Ordinaries 3050.2 +0 NASDAQ 1653.62 +7.60 Dow Jones 9196.55 +13.33 FTSE-100 ...

Morning Market Wrap: US Stocks End Up On Signs of Improving Sentiment

... on the economic front, the Fed's survey was an excuse also for bond investors to take profits. Yields on the 30-year Treasury bond edged a point higher to 4.27%, while yields on the 10-year bond rose two points to 3.21%. Bond markets continue to anticipate ...

Treasury Group appoints Peter Kennedy to its board

Peter Kennedy, a senior partner of Madwicks Lawyers, has been appointed to the board of directors at the Treasury Group to increase its number of independent directors in accordance with the ASX corporate governance principles. As a non-executive director ...

ACCC launches joint initiative to combat unscrupulous businesses

... a big agency. Whilst there had been little research on this issue, in the report Consumer Redress Study, produced for Treasury in 1999, it is suggested that the consumer most likely to access a redress mechanism is a male between the ages of 35-45 years ...

Rising dollar advances case for interest rate cut: ICAP

... according to Dr Ric Simes, chief economist at ICAP. Dr Simes said that since the RBA's last meeting in early May, the Federal Treasury has provided a slightly gloomier assessment of the economic outlook, the Australian dollar has continued to rise, and ...

Costello refuses to be drawn on rising dollar implications

... percentage point from growth, although it would push inflation down and increase the chances of an interest rate cut. Labor treasury spokesman Bob McMullan warned the outcome could be even worse, as the Budget forecast of 3.25 per cent growth next year ...