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This Week's Market Movers (21-25 July 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
... business climate indicator, purchasing managers indexes for France, Germany, and the Eurozone, Italian and French business confidence indicators, and Eurozone money supply. Purchasing Managers Indexes (PMI) for the Eurozone as a whole and for France ...

AUD to fall in second half of 2008: KBC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2008
... depreciate towards the end of the year," it said. Explaining how they came to this conclusion, KBC said, "Business confidence is at its lowest level since September 2001, while exports will gradually weaken with the expected slowdown in Asia. "All this ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2008
... $42 billion in value, amid renewed buying as bargain hunters snapped up stocks following signs of improved business confidence in the United States. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 190.9 points or 3.72 per cent higher at 5,318.4, while the broader ...

Sentiment sinks on floats

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2008
Failing business confidence, courtesy of the US-led sub-prime credit crisis has diminished corporate appetite for listing on the main board of the ASX. According to Pricewaterhousecoopers (PwC) latest survey of sharemarket floats, the number of business ...

Value after sub-prime: van Eyk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2008
... should avoid small cap stocks because their performance is directly correlated to domestic consumption and business confidence levels. "Small cap stocks will probably underperform while growth is reducing because they're usually domestic growth," said ...

Conflicting rate calls

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
... manufacturing has slipped into its first recession in over six years. Unsurprisingly, recent surveys show German business confidence at its lowest in two years, while investor confidence fell to its lowest ebb since 1992. Meantime, Europe's Dow Jones ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2007
... notably dipping below $41 in morning trade, a level not seen since September. He said today's positive NAB Business Confidence survey pointed towards happier times in the business world despite further expected interest rate rises. At 1207 AEST, takeover ...

Confidence down but not out

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2007
NAB's Business Confidence Index has dropped another 2 points to 10 index points, its third consecutive monthly fall from May's 14 point high. In their August 2007 Monthly Business Survey, NAB have reported that confidence is lower but still strong. ...

Corporates ride market turbulence

... to a high of 83.3 per cent. Nab Capital's senior market economist, Spiros Papadopoulos noted: "In contrast, business confidence fell 3 points to +12 in July, reflecting expectations that the RBA would soon be raising interest rates and the first few ...

Concepts in risk 101

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2007
... investment in the US mortgage market is exposed to sub-prime? Still corporate earnings remain very strong and business confidence is at all time highs and Stewart sees our economy continuing at its current robust rate of growth for the next 12 months. ...