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Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases building approvals figures for April and business indicators for the March quarter. The RP Data Core Logic Home Value Index, the Australian Industry Group performance of manufacturing index and the TD Securities-Melbourne ...

The recesssion we longed to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... recessionary'" (theage.com) The "bleak" set of numbers: Actual total private new capital expenditure dropped by 4.4% over the March quarter and 5.3% over the year. The "recessionary" set of numbers: "Estimate 2 for 2015-16 is $104,033m. This is 24.6% ...

Market set for a fairly flat open

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... after the release of worse than expected capital expenditure figures. Business investment fell 4.4 per cent in the March quarter, and is expected to fall further in the coming financial year. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 12.2 points, or 0.21 per ...

Shares lower at lunch time

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... speculated that the data could add weight for another cut to interest rates. Business investment fell 4.4% in the March quarter, a much larger fall than the median market forecast of 2.4%. Heffernan said the Australian dollar was weaker after the release ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... at 5,750. Locally on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases business investment figures for the March quarter. And in equities news, US-focused oil and gas producer Sundance Energy has its annual general meeting in Adelaide. In Australia ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... Warner Cable. Locally on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases construction work done for the March quarter and the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Leading Indexes of Economic Activity are due out. In Sydney, Reserve Bank of Australia deputy ...

Australia's super pool now more than $2 trillion

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... public sector and retail. The publication shows contributions to super funds with more than four members over the March quarter totaled $23.7 billion, up 4.4% on the same period in 2014. Australians also contributed a total of $101.6 billion to super ...

You can forget June

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... "double seasonal adjustment" by the San Fran Fed I ranted about two days ago to turn the reported 0.2% annualised March quarter GDP growth into 1.8? It wasn't mentioned on the April FOMC Statement, but the minutes revealed that members discussed the ...

Lies, stats and damned double seasonal adjustments

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... 0.2% annualised rate of GDP growth the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported the US economy grew by in the March quarter of this year is wrong. "The application of second-round seasonal adjustment increases real GDP growth in the first quarter of ...

CBA shares down on flat profit

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... in more than three months after it posted a flat $2.2 billion quarterly cash profit. The bank attributed the flat March quarter result to an increase in costs and strong competition for loans. Net profit, which includes one off-items, fell to $2.2 billion ...