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Insto investors bullish on equities: EIU survey

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
... (34%) were selected as the three best regions for asset price growth. EIU interviewed global pension-fund managers, economists, and private equity and hedge fund managers as part of the third annual survey. The survey was held in January and Australian ...

2013 Financial Standard Sales & Marketing Forum

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013
... trends for the year ahead, over the two-day forum at either The Shangri-La in Sydney. Confirmed speakers include chief economists include PIMCO's head of global wealth management, Peter Dorrian, the Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden ...

Interest rate to fall to 2.5%: NAB

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
... growth in the first half of last year and we've been broadly flat since." Oster reiterated the view, shared by many economists, that Australia is facing an imminent end to the investment phase of the mining boom without any obvious contender to take ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
... month, and imports jumped a bigger-than-expected 14.1 per cent, while the country saw a trade deficit of $880 million. Economists had tipped a surplus of $14.7 billion. The news comes a day after officials said inflation had come in below estimates ...

Ben's your uncle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
... good"...because the Fed's revised growth forecasts are only a shade of the half a percent reduction in growth many economists are expecting - all due to the increase in payroll and income taxes and the automatic government spending cuts. The day before ...

Jobs a-plenty but not if Gillard could help it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013
... of the country's labour market. Wow indeed for the Australian economy added more than seven times the 10,000 workers economists expected found work last month. The ABS' Labour Force report for February showed that 71,500 heads found work during the month. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... months in February, boosting retail spending 1.1 per cent compared with January, the Commerce Department reported. Economists had forecast a rise of just 0.2 per cent, according to data provider FactSet. The solid increase in retail sales is encouraging ...

Australia better long-term bet than the US

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
... Turning his attention globally, Koesterich said that interests rates are likely to remain lower for longer than most economists predict as the trends of aging demographics and household deleveraging sees fewer people borrowing.

Latest Financial Standard iPad edition available now

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
In the new edition of Financial Standard we review the issues that some of Australia's chief economists expect to define 2013, and feature the latest thinking in the social media space, as well as latest news, views and regular features. Financial Standard's ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... month. The purchasing managers index (PMI) came in at 50.4, down from December's 50.6 and below the 51.0 forecast by economists. WELLINGTON - The NZX50 stood at 4,425.93, a decrease of 6.173 points, or 0.2 per cent.