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| | | Westpac's batten-down-the-hatches approach balance sheet management means it's better suited than its rivals to weather future financial storms. The bank is just emerging from a period of consolidation. Jobs have been cut and efficiencies made but the ... |
| | | | ... expanding, it's slowing? It's the same for China. The official services PMI jumped to 55.5 last month from 53.7 in September - it's taking off again. Then again, Markit Economics' measure showed the index dropped to 53.5 in October from 54.3 - slowing ... |
| | | | The Australian market looks set to open flat after Wall Street showed a mixed performance and European stocks slid amid cautious trading on the eve of the US presidential election. At 0635 AEDT on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract ... |
| | | | The Australian stock market has opened mixed, with Westpac among the big early movers after reporting a fall in full year net profit. At 1025 AEDT on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 5.8 points, or 0.13 per cent, at 4,454.3 points, while ... |
| | | | Insurance sales and adviser growth show strong business momentum, despite cash earnings being down on last year, said Westpac-owned BT Financial Group. Life insurance sales were up 30%, compared with 14% for the market in 2012, it said after announcing ... |
| | | | Now what's wrong this time? The US Bureau of Labor Statistics released the 'mother-of-all-economic statistics' at the end of last week's trading and it was good. But how did Mr. Market react? He thought it was good too until... he didn't. The S&P 500 ... |
| | | | The Australian market looks set to open flat after Wall Street fell following stronger-than-expected jobs figures and as caution grew ahead of the presidential election. At 0700 AEDT on Monday, the December share price index futures contract was down ... |
| | | | The Australian market has opened higher, led by gains on Wall Street and higher commodity prices. At 1019 AEDT on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 27.5 points, or 0.62 per cent, at 4,485.1 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index ... |
| | | | ... since February. While bad news continues to hound Europe - the unemployment rate rose a fresh record high of 11.6% in September - there's some positive reports out of Europa lately, reports that concern the problem country of the day -- Spain. Spain's ... |
| | | | ... while anything below points to contraction. Separately, a survey by HSBC came in at 49.5 in October - from 47.9 in September - which, although still in contraction, represents another rise. The official PMI had contracted in August and September because ... |
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