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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
... sharemarket fell in line with Australia ahead of the federal election and after Australia unexpectedly posted a trade deficit. The NZX 50 Index fell 5.955 points, or 0.1 per cent, from a four-month high to 4,604.351.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... market on Tuesday edged higher despite disappointing figures on retail sales and Australia's widening current account deficit. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index gained 8.3 points, or 0.16 per cent, to 5,196.6 points. The broader All Ordinaries index added ...

Butterfly effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2013

Investors demand more clarity on carbon exposures

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2013
... other key issues from the vast bulk of retirement funds themselves. Industry led surveys will always suffer a credibility deficit to which the omission of key questions just adds. " AODP board member Sharan Burrow, whose organisation, International Trade ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013
... per cent) at 3,665.77. LONDON - European stocks finished lower as Wall Street took a beating from a drop in the US trade deficit which fuelled fears the Federal Reserve's stimulus program may soon be wound up, dealers said. London's FTSE 100 index of ...

Don't lump Asia Pacific in with EM fall

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
Investors must not unfairly mark down structurally sound Asia Pacific economies following the disappointing recent performance of the emerging markets region as a whole, according to Standard Life Investments investment director, global strategy Jason ...

India's triple dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
... inflation -10.7% in May- that calls for tighter policy and a dearer rupee. And then there's the ballooning current account deficit -it hit a record high of 6.7% of GDP in the December quarter of last year- that needs both: a cheaper currency on the trade ...

Greece what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... enough since 2010...but the Greeks have been burning through them at warp speed. All those restructurings, their fiscal deficit spending, their privatisations are not working it seems. Nay, not it seems...they are not working period. Greece remains in ...

Economy 'not running out of puff': Wayne Swan

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... services growth for our increasing living standards, and for our ability to grow our exports without an unsustainable trade deficit."

Gold headed to $3k an ounce says ETF pioneer

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
Gold may yet reach US$3000 an ounce, despite recent downward trends and a current level of around the US$1,200 mark, according to ETF Securities' Graham Tuckwell. Speaking at an event at the ASX marking 10 years since ETF Securities launched the world's ...