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This Week's Market Movers (14-18 July 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
Macroeconomic indicators set for release this week are not expected to deviate from the ongoing global theme of slowing growth and higher inflation. Australia Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Glenn Stevens address on the "Challenges for Economic ...

Trouble at Threadneedle Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
More signs that US problems have made their way into the UK came overnight. After signaling in recent weeks that it is more likely to follow the European Central Bank (ECB) and tighten monetary policy rather than ease, the Bank of England (BoE) succumbed ...

Market Movers (10 July)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will release June Labour Force data at 11:30 AM today. Labour market surveys released earlier this week point to continuing weakness on the jobs front. The ANZ job ads survey released last Monday showed the ...

Market Movers Overnight: Bernanke's speech

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
Last night US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke before the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Forum in Arlington, Virginia, where he stressed that the Fed remains committed to financial stability and that the US Central Bank may extend ...

Market Movers Overnight (8 July)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
Economic data releases overnight give further confirmation that the slowdown in the United States is spreading to other major world economies. German industrial production fell by 2.4 per cent in May from the previous month - the largest drop in nine ...

This Week's Market Movers (7-11 July 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
NEW SECTION INTRODUCED THIS WEEK: Every Monday, Financial Standard will provide a line up of the most important domestic and international economic releases for the week. Our economics expert provides comments on how the data could affect movements ...

Schroders buys Swiss Re

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
... strong track record," said Schroders country head Switzerland, Stephen Mills. Swiss Re member of the executive board Benjamin Meuli said the firm is "delighted" with the acquisition, and that Schroders will "further develop this business together with ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2006
... University researchers who have slowed the speed of light in a controlled fashion for the first time in history. Professor Benjamin Eggleton said that the development could initiate a new generation of fibre networks that could carry 40GB per second ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2006
The US equity and bond markets are reading from different pages but the result is the same - they both went down overnight. US bond yields rose last night reacting to reports suggesting rising inflationary pressure and therefore, more Fed interest rate ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2006
US housing data released overnight has all but assured another Fed rate hike after its 28-29 June Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. However, weak forward housing indicators put in doubt speculation for a further rate increase immediately ...