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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 ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... or 3.2 per cent, to $28.68 after reporting that total food and liquor sales rose by just 2.3 per cent during the March quarter while comparable sales were up just 0.7 per cent. The retail giant is also axing 400 jobs in a bid to save $500 million in ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... March is due out. And in equities news, News Corp releases third quarter earnings, the Commonwealth Bank issues its March quarter trading update and Woolworths releases its third quarter sales results. In Australia, the market on Tuesday gave up all ...

May cut, may not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... cut interest rates at the next one - on the fifth of the fifth month of 2015. The release of higher-than-expected March quarter core inflation - trimmed mean up 2.3%; weighted median up 2.4% -- in the middle of last month reduced the odds to a coin flip ...