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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... share price index futures contract was down 41 points at 4,456 points, on volume of 4,544 contracts. CommSec economist Craig James said Australian stocks would trade in line with the US in the absence of domestic leads. "We are running into the end of ...

GDP down no reason to frown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
... suggested expectations of more interest rate rises were damaging the confidence of buyers and builders." It quoted Craig James, CommSec's chief economist, expecting a "continuation of flat prices'' of new homes but forgot to include the recent weakness ...

Cavendish, Super Concepts sign with SMARTwrap

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
Cavendish Superannuation and Super Concepts have agreed to be the default administration providers for a SMARTwrap offering for self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF). The two SMSF administration providers have signed a heads of agreement with provider ...

Whatever the question, the answer is China

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
... products while there have never been as many goods in the national CPI basket for which prices are going down, said Craig James, chief equities economist at Commonwealth Securities. This slow inflation outlook combined with improving US prospects should ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
... index futures contract was 102 points higher at 4,576 points, on volume of 35,753 contracts. CommSec chief economist Craig James said the Euro and the Australian dollar had soared on Monday morning after the International Monetary Fund formally approved ...

From ratchet to resilient: an economy in bloom

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... not. Stammer said that a double dip is unlikely given the health of local and offshore banks. All roads lead to China Craig James, chief economist at CommSec, predicts the local economy will post just over three per cent growth for 2010, driven by emerging ...

Signs of a residential property recovery

JOHN KAVANAGH  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... Brisbane and down 0.2 per cent in Canberra. In a note published following the release of the data, CommSec economist Craig James said the upward momentum in Sydney, Melbourne, Darwin and the national average was a result of low interest rates, generous ...

Experts pick top stocks and sectors

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... stocks to boost returns in Australian equities allocations over the next two years, according to industry experts. Craig James, chief equities economist at CommSec, said the industrialisation of China and India would play a significant part in the growth ...

More bombshells before the recovery

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... panelists of an industry briefing held this morning. Speaking at the Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum in Sydney, Craig James, chief equities economist at Commonwealth Securities, said that he predicts the index to dive another 13 per cent to ...

Something interesting about rates

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2008
... blunting their influence. Only an estimated one-third of people having housing mortgages may make reinforce this, Craig James, chief equities economist at CommSec, told the forum. "A Melbourne Institute study says 46 per cent of people have no debt at ...