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Consumer sentiment falls 2% in November: Westpac

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2003
... by 0.8 per cent. Whether or not now is a good time to buy a major household item fell by 1.6 per cent, still 3.7 per cent above last year's level. Mr Evans said the Reserve Bank was likely to interpret sentiment levels in November as a sign that spending ...

Midday Market Wrap: Stocks firmer to noon

... on 49 cents or 1.7 per cent to $29.59 and Westpac was 23 cents firmer at $16.00 by 1208 AEDT. St George Bank broke back above the $20.00 mark, adding 39 cents or nearly two per cent to $20.05 by 1209 AEDT. All Ordinaries 3225.2 +7.5 NASDAQ 1930.75 -10.89 ...

Hedge funds underperform equity markets: Hennessee

... October but underperformed the broad market, largely due to valuation concerns and the reluctance of the market to break out above the market's 50 day moving average on heavy volume," said Hennessee Group managing principal Charles Gradante. Latin American ...

Putnam scandal impacts BT ratings

... management is making some changes in the right direction and it is possible that the BT International Share Fund will deliver above average returns over the next year," according to van Eyk. "However, given the likelihood of more changes and the process ...

Morning Market Wrap: Dollar weaker after US jobless claims plunge

The Australian dollar opened weaker today against a broadly stronger US dollar but remained within its recent range above important support levels. At 0700 AEDT the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.7058/63 compared with yesterday's close of 0.7121/26. ...

Citigroup given low rating for international equities capability

... research of structural issues and market focus on short-term issues. The target return is an average 2.5 percentage points above the MSCI World Accumulation ex-Australia Index in Australian dollars, over a three- to five-year period. Morningstar noted ...

Alternative investments proving hugely popular: Glebe

... that hedge funds have been hugely popular and ethical and Socially Responsible Funds (SRIs) have also consistently grown above the total market. In what has been a simmering debate amongst certain quarters of the Australian investment scenario as to ...

Midday Market Report: RBA meeting nerves prompts lacklustre trading

... bit nervous about the possibility of an interest rate rise," Mr Klusman said. "It's a hard situation, the Aussie dollar is above US70c, so if they raise interest rates, what is the Aussie going to do? "Overall the market is lacklustre." The slow trade ...

PM flags tax cuts for high income earners

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2003
... flagged tax relief for workers hit by the top tax bracket. He said the top tax rate, hitting people earning $62,500 and above, came in at too low a level but raising that would be dependant on whether money was available in the Budget. "I agree that ...

Agribusiness conditions improve marginally for the September quarter: NAB survey

... has said however the near-term and medium-term outlook for agribusiness has improved markedly in the latest surveys to be above pre-drought levels reported during 2001/02. Agribusiness export levels during the September quarter remained weak due to the ...