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Future Fund defiant in face of airport legal proceedings

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2013
... closed at a six-week low, with better-than-expected Chinese manufacturing data unable to inspire investors. HSBC's purchasing managers' index for China, released on Monday, slipped to 50.8 in November from 50.9 in October, on a 100-point scale. Numbers ...

Santa Claus is comin' to town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2013

Down, down, A$ stay down (please?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2013

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013
... Bernanke gave no indication of when the Fed might start reducing its $US85 billion ($A90.39 billion) a month asset purchasing program. OptionsXpress market analyst Ben Le Brun said profit-taking evident on the Australian market over the last few sessions ...

Mohammad goes to mountain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2013

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2013
... 2.01 points to 23,036.94. The non-manufacturing numbers indicated the economy is showing signs of strength. The ISM purchasing managers' index for the service sector rose to 55.4 per cent in October - up from a September reading of 54.4 per cent and ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013
... AEDT on Monday, the December share price index futures contract was up 24 points at 5,414. China's official October purchasing managers' index (PMI) of manufacturing activity climbed to 51.4 from 51.1 in September, the highest reading since April 2012. ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
... copper which is the biggest driver, so the miners were off in London," he said. The release of China's manufacturing purchasing management index (PMI) data at midday AEDT will also be closely watched in Australia. Locally, the banks are mixed. National ...

US stimulus having no direct impact

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
... sitting on $2 trillion in cash and not lending it out." In spite of a seemingly gigantic $85 billion a month asset purchasing program, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's first hint back in May that he would consider slowing the rate of stimulus ...