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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... Gold miner Newcrest was steady at $9.33, despite announcing a six per cent increase in production during the December quarter. Energy giant Santos had added five cents to $14.31 after it lifted its December quarter sales revenue. Telstra was up one cent ...

Up, up, prices are up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... by sea has become dearer in the quarter ended 31 December 2013. Headline consumer prices jumped by 0.8% in the December quarter - double market expectations for a 0.4% increase - taking the annual rate of inflation up above the mid-point of the Reserve ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... release of higher-than-expected inflation figures. Consumer price index (CPI) growth of 0.8 per cent for the December quarter was above the 0.5 per cent rise expected by economists, reducing the chances of another rate cut by the central bank. The benchmark ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014
... largest company on the Australian share market, announced iron ore production of 48.9 million tonnes during the December quarter but the result was below market expectations of 49.4 million tonnes, Bell Direct equities analyst Julia Lee says. "There ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014
... releases. Locally, in economic news on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases CPI data for the December quarter while the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Indexes of Economic Activity for November is also due out. In major equities news ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014
... The China GDP figures showed that growth in Australia's biggest trading partner slowed to 1.8 per cent in the December quarter, from 2.2 per cent. It grew 7.7 per cent in 2013, the same as 2012, when it recorded its slowest expansion in 13 years. Locally ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2014
... broader S&P 500 was down 0.40 per cent. Meanwhile, economists expect Chinese gross domestic product data for the December quarter to show the weakest performance since 1999.

QE tapering fears spark $1 billion flight from bonds

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013
... funds in June, the highest in 12 months. The June quarter also marked the fastest period of outflows since the December quarter 2011. Despite the global trend, a number of Australian fixed income funds have actually seen net inflows over the period. ...

India's triple dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
... dearer rupee. And then there's the ballooning current account deficit -it hit a record high of 6.7% of GDP in the December quarter of last year- that needs both: a cheaper currency on the trade account and a stable (if not a higher exchange rate) on ...

ATO reveals dip in number of new SMSFs

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... Australian Tax Office (ATO). Only 5,840 new SMSFs were created in the March quarter, compared with 9,748 in the December quarter of 2012, and over 10,000 in the previous two quarters. However, the number of SMSF windups in the March quarter was by far ...