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Stammer joins Centric Wealth investment committee

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... investment models that are implemented via managed accounts. Dr Stammer is one of the most well known and experienced market economists in Australia and Asia with a career spanning over 50 years. Starting his career as an academic economist before moving ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
... news on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases the consumer price index for the June quarter. Economists surveyed by AAP expect a small rise of 0.6 per cent in inflation during the June quarter, for an annual rate of 1.3 per cent. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
... economic news on Thursday, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) deputy governor Philip Lowe is due to give a speech to The Economists' Bellwether Series 2012 (Australia) in Sydney. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases labour force data for June while ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
... Philip Lowe is due to speak on on financial regulation and the future of banking at the 41st Australian Conference of Economists. In equities news, Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) is due to give a second quarter operations update, while Energy and ...

Not ugly enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... not? For all we know, it's just all those sophisticated econometric models that got it wrong. Nah, it'll never be the economists who get it wrong, we have two hands to explain both sides of the argument, always - the "on the one hand" and the "on the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... highlighting the fact that it was oversold (on Monday) because of all the short-term uncertainties that exist at present." Economists are split on whether the RBA will leave the cash rate at 3.75 per cent, lower it by 25 basis points or cut it by half ...

"If it becomes necessary" time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... is us. It would have been not as bad if we got a good reading from the US non-farm payrolls report. But we did not. Economists missed big time. US businesses hired only 69,000 workers, almost half the 150,000 predicted by the experts. What's more, 49,000 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... AEST investors had learned that Australian residential building approvals fell 8.74 per cent in April - well short of economists' predictions of a 0.5 per cent rise. The Australian dollar fell below 97 US cents on the news, and was trading at 97.09 US ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
... sentiment. The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported a 0.2 per cent fall in retail spending in April, compared to economists' forecasts of a rise of 0.2 per cent. "The market's just fickle. It wants to pick up the bad information, but it's not willing ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... nearly three years, and down from 11.9 per cent in March. It was also well below the 12.2 per cent rise forecast by economists. The figures, which also showed a fall in investment growth and easing inflation, came a day after anaemic trade data that ...