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Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... Thursday, the September share price index futures contract was up 33 points at 5,606. In local economic news, Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens is speaking at the Boao Forum for Asia Financial Cooperation Conference in Sydney. The Australian Bureau ...

Market to open flat

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... Consumer Sentiment and the ANZ-Roy Morgan weekly consumer confidence survey are due out. And in Brisbane, Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens speaks at an Economic Society of Australia lunch. In equities news, ANZ chief executive Mike Smith speaks at ...

Retirees 'much worse' off: RBA

JASON CADDEN FOR AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... easier for self-funded retirees as record low interest rates force them to take on riskier investments, Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens says. Central banks around the world have lowered their interest rates to stimulate their economies, causing yields ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... after what the NZ Bank did yesterday," Quay Equities head of trading Tristan K'Nell said. New Zealand's Reserve Bank Governor Graeme Wheeler surprised the market on Thursday by saying the next adjustment could be "either up or down". If the RBA cuts ...

RBA holds rates but deploys rhetoric as magic pudding

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
Reserve Bank governor Glen Stevens can hold off policy adjustments if rhetoric can help get the economy moving again, according to Instreet managing director George Lucas. Yesterday the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) surprised the market by holding ...

Australia can't afford complacency: Murray

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... some people who save and live offshore." Tuesday's interest rate cut was accompanied by a prediction from Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens that the resource boom will peak next year - largely as a consequence of the slowdown in Chinese growth that ...

AusSuper to double Asian exposure

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
... well as Raymundo Yu, former chairman of Merrill Lynch Asia Pacific. The committee will be chaired by former Reserve Bank governor Bernie Fraser. Delaney said AustralianSuper would up its exposure to Asian markets to $7bn by 2016, and that the decision ...

China manuf growth figures being misread

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... HSBC won't come out until mid-July, so trying to act on these figures is probably not really that wise." Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens last month clarified the fact that a PMI below 50 really means a slower-than-average growth rather than the typical ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2012
... China. "(There is) also a continuing reaction to the relative strength of the Australian dollar." Comments by Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens that a cut to the official cash rate is unlikely in the short term were also being digested by the market ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2012
... market were very good. The EU crisis would be less intense, the US economy was picking up, and the Australian Reserve Bank governor seemed comfortable with the way things were going, he said. At 1010 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 42.3 ...