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RBA joins the bulls in central bank shop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2017
As expected, and following the lead from the three big central banks - BOJ, Fed, BOE - that met last week, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept the official cash rate unchanged at 1.5% while at the same time offering a positive outlook on the global ...

VicSuper appoints new chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2017
VicSuper named a member director as its new chair. Christine Stewart, a member director on the VicSuper board for seven years, has succeeded Bruce Hartnett as chair following his retirement on 31 December. The $17 billion fund also appointed employer ...

Help wanted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2017
The ANZ job advertisement survey is a definite positive no matter how it's measured. Job ads increased by 4.4% over the month of January following a 2.2% decline in the previous month. Over the past 12 months, growth in job advertisements quickened ...

Christmas not spent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2017
... a small 0.1% gain in the previous month, marking the fourth straight monthly deceleration in retail spending growth. December's decline is also worse than market expectations for a 0.3% pick-up, but that's for those who didn't pay enough attention to ...

Whitehelm drives Prime Super outperformance

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
Whitehelm Capital's partnership with Prime Super played a key role in delivering strong outperformance in 2016, the latter said. Whitehelm, which advises on the $3 billion held in Prime Super across 120,000 member accounts, was instrumental in driving ...

Three for three

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
Three major world central banks met this week - all three kept monetary policy unchanged, all three expect better growth ahead. The Bank of Japan (BOJ) was first off the bat. The Japanese central bank decided to keep policy settings as they are at the ...

Hunter Hall independent review rejects WHSP takeover

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2017
Hunter Hall's independent directors recommended that shareholders reject Washington H. Soul Pattinson and Company's takeover bid for the company, on the basis that it significantly undervalues shares. The review justified this recommendation saying ...

Heading the ECB's way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
Growth and inflation in the Eurozone economy continue to head in the right direction. Preliminary estimates show that the region's GDP expanded by 0.5% in the fourth quarter, quicker than the third quarter's 0.4% pace and expectations for the same and ...

A bump up in credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
NAB's cautious optimism over Australian business conditions (see "Five minutes of sunshine?" report in this section), should be allayed by the Reserve Bank of Australia's private sector credit report. Total private sector credit increased by 0.7% in ...

Five minutes of sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
Australian business confidence surges in December but confidence is unmoved. This is the message from the NAB monthly business survey. The business confidence jumped to a reading of 11 in December from 6 in the previous month. The first double-digit ...