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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after US stocks made a modest rebound following Friday's sharp slide, as investor sentiment was lifted after a realtors report showed pending home sales rose 6.3 per cent during April, providing ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open lower after Wall St fell on long-term inflation concerns and likely ratings downgrades for big bond insurers. On the Sydney Futures exchange, the June share price index was down 29 points at 5,591. Today ...

Retail spending stays flat during April

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2008
Total retail turnover maintained its near-zero growth pattern during April, reinforcing earlier trend figures that retail spending is no longer increasing as the economy begins to slow down. According to the ABS, retail turnover during April was $20.1 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
The Australian share market was slightly lower at noon as weakness among the major banks outweighed strength among oil and resources stocks flowing from higher prices for oil and most base metals. Austock senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said ...

Emissions trading won't fix climate change: expert

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
Emissions trading won't lower emissions production as all it does is force up the profits of carbon producers particularly energy producers, argues the German MP who pioneered their feed-in tariff electricity system. Hans -Josef Fell, a leading Greens ...

Car sales put on the brakes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2008
Car sales, a leading indicator for retail consumption, have finally begun to slow down. According to the ABS, the April 2008 trend estimate for new motor vehicle sales decreased 0.4 per cent to 89,775 compared with March. The fall continues a trend ...

The fight over how to fight inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
People arguing that Australia should relax its inflation targets are peculiar and misguided, argues Ken Henry, secretary of the Commonwealth Treasury. Henry's comments, in a speech he gave yesterday to a forum of Australian Business Economists in Sydney ...

Banks enjoy mortgage windfall, sort of

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2008
The reverse mortgage market is in the doldrums following the withdrawal from the market by one lender and sharp cutbacks by a couple of others. But brokers report that while there is still demand from people who need access to funds even though applications ...

Bank fees jump three-times inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2008
Total bank fees by Australians experienced their biggest jump in four years and reflect the more dynamic way we use banks rather than fees themselves actually increasing, argues the Reserve Bank. The Reserve has just published their annual bank fee ...

T.Rowe Price grows FUM ten-fold

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
While many fund managers suffered massive outflows in the last three years to rivals or to the market, global equity specialist T.Rowe Price grew its local portfolio from $300 million to over $3 billion over the same period. Investors big and small ...