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Class action on the cards for ASX healthcare firm

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2017
An ASX-listed healthcare company is facing a potential class action from shareholders, including major Australian fund managers, following a 37% fall in share price. William Roberts Lawyers has alleged that Sirtex Medical, which manufactures and distributes ...

Australian businesses lift borrowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2017
... flattening (not a sharp and sudden deceleration) in housing credit growth. Personal lending fell by 1.4% in the year to June (unchanged from May) for its 18th straight month of year-on-year contractions. This is hardly surprising given the latest available ...

Powered by low-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017
Wall Street's on a tear with all of the equity market's benchmark indices - S&P 500; Dow Jones; Nasdaq; Russell 2000 - hitting record highs last week. The most proximate cause is, of course, the strong June quarter earnings results. According to Factset ...

Cheaper imports

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
It got less press than the June quarter CPI report - which showed inflation in Australia remained below the RBA's target in the June quarter - but the Australian bank governor Philip Lowe's address to the Anika Foundation luncheon in Sydney was held ...

NAB collaborates on responsible investment bond

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2017
National Australia Bank placed Australia's first sustainability bond for the Australian Catholic University, valued at $200 million. The bond, which funds both green bond and social bond projects aligned to the International Capital Markets Association's ...

Low-flation to lower-flation?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2017
Australian inflation has decelerated - headline inflation slowed to 1.9% in the year to the June quarter from 2.1% in the March quarter. Yet it's also picked up - the weighted median up to 1.8% from 1.7%; but it's also flat - a trimmed mean steady at ...

Inflation matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2017
... the policy decision accordingly becomes more conventional." Again, true that. UK headline inflation - 2.6% in the year to June - had been running above the BOE's 2% since February this year while the core inflation rate - 2.4% in June - had been over ...

Flashes: activity expansion and moderating inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2017
... markets". The latest readings on the inflation front - output and input prices increasing at a slower rate in July from June -- justifies the Bank of Japan's recent announcement to push back the timing of when it expects to achieve its 2% inflation target ...

Not showing: inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
RBA deputy governor Guy Debelle snuffed hawkish interpretations of the minutes of the 4 July RBA meeting - particularly, the minutes' reference to a 3.5% neutral cash rate - reversing the Australian dollar's upward run. "...the current (nominal) cash ...

Milton to acquire $18m unlisted manager

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017
Listed Australian equities investment company Milton Corporation has entered into an agreement to acquire an unlisted investment manager for $18 million. Consideration will be the issue of new Milton shares, and Milton managing director Frank Gooch ...