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Market to open higher

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... two weeks. Dow member Intel stock lost 1.6 per cent. Art Hogan, chief market strategist, said Monday's economic data was "pretty positive" on the whole. Reports showed higher construction spending and higher personal incomes in April, but lower consumer ...

Winter of our discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... Cooperation and Development (OECD) issued its provisional first quarter 2015 estimates of OECD growth last week but I'm pretty sure it's now getting some attention. The OECD's provisional estimate shows that the combined industrialised countries' GDP ...

The recesssion we longed to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... fact is that the RBA just cannot compete with QE-ing central banks. Is Ben suggesting what I think he's suggesting? "I'm pretty confident [quantitative easing programs] have been effective, and, at least so far, they haven't had many of the bad side-effects ...

Market lower in broad sell-off

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... dropping almost 16 per cent. Revamped technology company Hills Group firmed 0.5 cents to 62.5 cents as chief executive Ted Pretty made a sudden exit from the company. On Wall Street in the US on Tuesday, stocks fell sharply on a strengthening US dollar ...

Hard landing in China could trip Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... said. Fenton alerted that in China "there are real risks there that the slowdown in growth becomes a hard landing. That has pretty serious consequences for Australia." The end of the mining boom "is affecting everything, from hairdressers and baristas ...

US golden opportunity for listed infrastructure

ALEX BURKE, LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... infrastructure portfolio of "about 35 to 45" companies on exchanges "throughout the world." Humphreys continued: "I think we're pretty well-placed to enter this space because it's a large life insurance company, with very long term liabilities, which ...

PROFILE: PM Capital CIO Paul Moore

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... club in with his former boss? "To be honest I'm not the sort of person that can work for someone else. I knew that and I'm pretty sure Kerr knew that as well!" he laughs. "For better or for worse, I like digging the hole myself." After successfully steering ...

Economist asleep over budget investment market impact

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... some doomsters would like to see. "The problem is that business investment outside mining, and maybe including mining, is pretty poor. We're yet to see a turnaround on that front. The mining investment boom has a long way to deflate and the investment ...

Budget for uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... is it Social Services Minister Scott Morrison's first?). Prime Minister Tony Abbot "promised" that this one would be a "pretty dull and pretty routine" budget. Then again, with Tony Abbott, we can never be sure. And then, there's the question of how ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... "potential dangers" to financial stability. Chris Low, chief economist at FTN Financial, said Yellen's remarks suggested she is "pretty eager" to raise ultra-low interest rates despite some disappointing economic data. "She seems to be hinting that they're ...