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Spanish fly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... 10-month old government. This is because it's only after Spain formally requests a bailout that the ECB could start purchasing Spanish bonds through its newborn OMTs which investors hope would short-circuit the further spread of the crisis. The EU powers-that-are ...

Market wrap - AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... to open higher after Wall Street was boosted by better than expected data on the US manufacturing sector. A positive purchasing managers index reading for the month of September drove a rise in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. At 0755 AEST on Tuesday ...

ANZ merges NZ brands

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
Both of ANZ's New Zealand brands will be merged over the next two years, the bank announced yesterday. Since purchasing it in 2003, ANZ has operated The National Bank alongside its operations in New Zealand. From the end of October both will be combined ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
... per cent to 3,531.82 points. The Bank of Japan (BoJ) announced after a two-day policy meeting it would boost an asset-purchasing fund by 10 trillion yen ($A122.98 billion) to 80 trillion yen while also keeping interest rates between zero and 0.1 per ...

Big Ben brings in the heavy guns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... is at the rate most consistent with its dual mandate, the Committee agreed today to increase policy accommodation by purchasing additional agency mortgage-backed securities at a pace of $40 billion per month. The Committee also will continue through ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... tech-rich Nasdaq gained 41.52 points, or 1.33 per cent, to 3,155.83. The Federal Reserve announced a new program of purchasing $US40 billion ($A38 billion) a month in mortgage-backed bonds aiming at dragging down long-term interest rates. It also pledged ...

Defensive investors may have traded risks

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... pay a steady pension income. Defensive investing should also contribute to maintaining 'real' - or after-inflation - purchasing power," he said. Few retail investors have a clear idea of how to appropriately build the large but overlooked defensive part ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... slipped 0.63 per cent, or 56.02 points, to 8,783.89 Fears over growth in China on Saturday were stoked when the official purchasing managers' index (PMI) of manufacturing activity fell to a nine-month low of 49.2 in August from 50.1 in July, owing to ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
... showed manufacturing activity in Australia's key trading partner China slumped to a nine-month low in August. China's purchasing managers' index (PMI) fell to 49.2 index points in August, from 50.1 the previous month, government figures showed. Macquarie ...

Food is the new Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2012
... because of the greater allocation of food - 40% to 60% -- on their household budgets. Apart from cutting into households' purchasing power, higher food prices could slow - if not prevent altogether - central banks efforts to re-stimulate slowing economies. ...