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Midday Market Report: Dollar firm; All eyes on Japan

... some strength in US jobs growth. "But I don't think positions will be large - because payrolls always presents huge volatility - just a little bit of a short position going into it." At 1200 AEST the Reserve Bank of Australia Trade Weighted Index was ...

Perpetual launches new infrastructure fund

... geographic regions, industries and business maturities. "Infrastructure investment can offer good returns with low volatility and it blends well with other growth assets," says Emilio Gonzalez, Perpetual's chief investment officer. These characteristics ...

August retail sales up 1.0%, dwelling approvals down 2.4%: ABS

... bubble. The decline in medium-density dwelling approvals follows a 20.4% jump in July, and continues the pattern of volatility in this series. Moreover, approvals fell away in late 2002 and early 2003 only to recover strongly through the middle part ...

FOMC to meet next week, unlikely to change interest rates: ICAP

... This meant that rates would remain low for a long time. And the two-pronged message has caused a lot of unnecessary volatility in bond markets. ICAP's economists also said the Federal Reserve Bank will not tighten until inflation rises significantly ...

Job advertisements rise 1.5% in August: ANZ job advertisement series

... July," said Mr Eslake. "Although in practice, the monthly employment data is likely to continue to exhibit considerable volatility around this average. Employment growth of around 15,000 per month, on average, would be sufficient to keep the unemployment ...

Morning market wrap: Power blackout hits US share price futures, supports bonds

... of solid economic data, helped set the positive tone to equity markets early in the session, and contributed to the volatility in bond markets. The Dow Jones industrial average ended trade Thursday 38.8 points (0.4%) higher at 9,310.6, while the S&P ...

Finsuper reports 2% return on Moderate Growth option

WITH AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2003
... executive Debora Jackson said the Moderate Growth result represents a 3.94% lift from the previous year. "Despite market volatility during the past couple of years, I believe Finsuper has achieved very competitive results by engaging excellent fund managers ...

Job ads rise in June: ANZ

WITH AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2003
... Bank said this was a solid increase, and showed parts of the domestic economy were still performing well. "After the volatility of the newspaper job advertisement series in recent months, the solid increase in June is welcome and highlights once again ...

Assirt awards five stars to Basis Capital's Aust-rim Opportunity hedge fund

... strong absolute return approach to credit-related strategies, has achieved a very strong return of 11.5 per cent, with volatility of less than 3% over the last three years. The fund was established in 2000 and invests in three credit-related strategies ...

van Eyk closer to rating Australian long/short funds

... robust quantitative approaches and who had strong past performance in long-only funds. Not surprisingly, given the volatility and decline in the market over the past 18 months or so, the review found that absolute managers had performed strongly in recent ...