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Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2016
... that we are not planning to issue [deficit bonds]", said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said in an interview Saturday in Tokyo. Pressure for a stimulus package has stepped up following Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's landslide Upper House election ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... but Blue Sky founder and managing director Mark Sowerby reveals the process behind each is not all that different. On Saturday 8 August, Sowerby completed the 54km swim from the English coast to mainland Europe. The achievement, which he is hoping will ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... issued a statement saying it would make "counter-proposals" on a deal to unlock much-needed bailout funds in Brussels on Saturday. HONG KONG - The euro retreated in Asia on concerns about Greece's bailout reform talks after the IMF walked out, while ...

Super funds advised to be smart with technology

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... superannuation funds need to be ready to service a client who might want to make changes to their insurance or super at 11pm on a Saturday night. Van Wyk added QSuper does not see robo advice as a threat or disruptor and sees the technology that drives ...

Breathing space or gasping room?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... (?) negotiated to extend over this weekend passed. "Plus ASa change..." We won! We won! In a televised statement last Saturday, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras declared, "Yesterday we took a decisive step, leaving austerity, the bailouts and the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... by 25 basis points to 2.75 per cent, and its one-year lending rate by 40 basis points to 5.6 per cent, both effective Saturday. WELLINGTON - The NZX 50 Index fell 21.129 points, or 0.4 per cent, to 5471.683.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... on listed retirement village operators. Stocks with regulatory pressure also fell amid political uncertainty ahead of Saturday's general election. The NZX 50 Index fell 21.075 points, or 0.4 per cent, to 5189.785 on Tuesday.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... events, investors reacted to weak Chinese economic data and a possible shake-up of the beer industry. Beijing said on Saturday that industrial production grew by 6.9 per cent last month, its weakest rate since December 2008. HONG KONG - Asian markets ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... 0.38 per cent, or 7.70 points, to 2,041.86 and Shanghai added 0.88 per cent, or 20.27 points, to 2,331.95. China will on Saturday announce figures including retail sales and fixed asset investment for August. Data released Thursday showed inflation easing ...

Humanitarian you, humanitarian me too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
You kiddin' me? I had to go through not one, not two, nor three but several websites to verify what I was reading Saturday morning (Melbourne time), that Wall Street jumped - with the S&P 500 index's Friday surge erasing all of the losses it made from ...