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Economic round-up: Umbrellas up, ice creams down

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2007

Aussies in ever greater debt: MLC

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
... bit carried away, and debt levels have gone just a bit crazy." Parker warned that the listed property boom was close to a bubble in Perth, and that "Perth property cannot be valued at Melbourne prices." "Sleep at night investments can't do 18.5 per cent ...

Economic round-up: Greenspan versus the poet

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2007
While China's Premier Wen Jiabao relies on the economic advice of a poet, America's former Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, protests he has less influence than he's given credit for with his economic observations. Trying to turn down the heat ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
... earlier climbing nearly two points above its record closing high set on March 24, 2000, in the waning days of the dot-com bubble. The Nasdaq Composite Index fell 39.13 points, or 1.52 per cent, to close at 2,537.92. Shares in the major minors started ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
... earlier climbing nearly two points above its record closing high set on March 24, 2000, in the waning days of the dot-com bubble. The Nasdaq Composite Index fell 39.13 points, or 1.52 per cent, to close at 2,537.92. LONDON - The FTSE 100 of Britain's ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007
... to finish just about 3 points below its March 2000 record closing high, which was set in the last throes of the dot-com bubble. On Monday, the S&P 500 topped that record close at midday and then narrowly missed it at the closing bell. Stocks have rallied ...

China's market party gets louder

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2007
... fundamentals and on the weekend China's central bank governor, Zhou Xiaochuan, reiterated concerns about a stock market bubble. Goldman Sachs' report warned that a market driven by retail investors is less driven by fundamentals, "which tends to create ...

China funds under pressure?

... until this week China's growth story was fairly straightforward. Admittedly several investment houses saw the boom as a bubble but nobody predicted it would wipe more than a trillion dollars in paper losses overall from share markets around the world ...

China booming to a bubble?

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
There are growing concerns that a bubble is forming in the Chinese stock market as local investors drive up prices to record levels, with over 1.4 million new trading accounts opening up in January alone. The Chinese Banking Regulation Commission (CBRC) ...

Party like it's 1999: Allianz Global

... global economic growth will focus attention back towards stocks which have been out of favour since the 1999 stockmarket bubble, according to RCM (UK), the Allianz Global Investors-owned equities specialist. Lucy MacDonald, chief investment officer of ...