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Jingling bells

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
... reports that the resurgence of shipments of iron ore to China "became clear in mid-September when 29 vessels--the largest weekly volume since late March--were chartered to haul iron ore to China, double the previous week and 13 more than the preceding ...

Market wrap late AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... pretty quiet opening," he said. US stocks closed little changed after a solid rally sparked by surprisingly good data on weekly jobless claims fizzled out, in part due to questions over the figures. At close on Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... to 4,505.2 points. NEW YORK - US stocks closed little changed after a solid rally sparked by surprisingly good data on weekly jobless claims fizzled out, in part due to questions over the figures. At the closing bell on Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial ...

Good jobs bad jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... by 0.3% in September to US$23.58 beating expectations for a 0.2% gain. Yippee, extra spending money. Similarly, average weekly hours ticked up to 34.5 hours last month from 34.4 in August and against expectations for a flat reading. Employers lift the ...

Spanish austerity and Chinese take-away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... flowing. It injected a net 365 billion yuan (or around US$58 billion) into the money markets this week. This is the biggest weekly injection on record and is aimed at helping Chinese commercial banks meet reserve requirements and at the same time ensuring ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... was up five points at 4,251. In economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics is due to release Average Weekly Time Earnings (AWOTE) for three months to May, while Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor (financial markets) Guy ...

Swan talks up bank reforms for competition

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... incentives for 'fifth pillar' banking institutions to increase their competitiveness against the dominant institutions. In his weekly economic note however, the Treasurer said that since December 2010 smaller banks have captured an estimated $17.7 billion ...

My Adviser offers accountants licensing package

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
... deposit products and cash management accounts. "Our package is competitively priced, with a flat fee and the option of a weekly payment for Professional Indemnity Insurance and on-going support and education," she added. The Institute of Chartered Accountants ...

Adviser tablet ownership triples

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... Australian Life and Investments' (Zurich) infographic analysis shows that 42% now use social media daily and 38% at least weekly. Forty per cent use Twitter with 60% noting they are expecting to increase their use of LinkedIn in during 2012. The analysis ...

Good one day, no good the next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012
... Obamacare. Ho-hum. No, that too. It was widely expected and isn't it a boost for the healthcare sector? Third time lucky. Weekly jobless claims dropped by 6,000 heads last week to 386,000. Not good, either. It missed expectations by a mere thousand heads. ...