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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
... In economic news on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics is due to release construction work done, December quarter, figures. In equities news, Westfield Group and Westfield Retail Trust are due to release full year results, as is Sydney Airport. ...

Interest rate cuts drive SMSFs to FI, property

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
... property investments, Multiport SMSF Investment Patterns Survey found. Cash holdings fell 1.9% to 24.5% in the December quarter compared to the previous September quarter, according to AMP SMSF Administration head of technical services, Philip LaGreca. ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... 13,944.05 while the broader S&P 500 index lost 2.73 points, or 0.18 per cent, to end on 1,509.39. While disappointing December quarter US productivity data weighed down the US market, RBS Morgans senior equities adviser Tony Russell said Australian investors ...

Retirement costs on the rise again

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... particularly into the increase in the comfortable retirement level. Overall, costs for food decreased in the December quarter 2012. The most significant price falls were for vegetables (-5.7 per cent) due to favourable growing and weather conditions ...

On positive contagion, reflation and the great rotation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... should be growing stronger than expected this year. The Philippines and Taiwan just reported better than forecasts December quarter GDP growth and Singapore posting the lowest unemployment rate in five years. There are positive signs in Japan too. Retail ...

Time to fear?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
... economies of the Philippines and Taiwan expanding by more than expected - 6.8% and 3.4%, respectively - in the December quarter. And in Singapore, the jobless rate dropped to 1.8% in the same period, the lowest in five years. There too is good news out ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
... Department figures showing the world's biggest economy shrank at an annual rate of 0.1 per cent in the October-December quarter. Forecasts had been for a 1.0 per cent rise. At 0630 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was up seven ...

Market Wrap - AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... December, while the Australian Bureau of Statistics is slated to release international trade prices indexes for December quarter. Also, the Housing Industry Association's new home sales data for December 2012 is due out, as is the National Australia ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... while ResMed is scheduled to release first half results, in San Diego, and Atlas Iron is expected to release December quarter results. In Australia, the market on Thursday closed at a 20-month peak driven by strong gains for high yielding stocks. At ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... were 38 cents, or 5.2 per cent, lower at $6.93. Newcrest maintained its full-year production forecasts after its December quarter gold and copper production rose from the preceding three months. Its shares fell 35 cents, or 1.49 per cent, to $23.30. ...