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Bennelong partners 4 Corners to offer infrastructure

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
Bennelong Funds Management recently announced it will partner a global infrastructure investment manager with the mandate to invest in listed infrastructure companies from around the world. The partnership with 4 Corners Infrastructure, Bennelong's ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... easing bias." China's monthly inflation figures were better than expected but still indicate a broad slowdown, with costs for goods declining for a 37th straight month - bad news for local resources groups. Energy and consumer staple stocks are the best ...

Out with the old in with the newer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
... indicator of industrial production and business investment in the economy. What it saw wasn't good. Disappointing durable goods orders put into question the durability of the on-going upward momentum in the economy. Total orders dropped by 1.4% in the ...

China millennials dictate future of emerging-market investment

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... airlines, airports and online travel agencies." Beyond travel, this new spending class is fostering growth in Korean luxury goods - as opposed to goods manufactured in, say, France or Italy, which are popular with older Chinese consumers - due to an ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... to $37.85. The Australian Bureau of Statistics on Thursday will release retail trade figures and international trade in goods and services data, both for January. Mr McCarthy said that data was likely to influence the market at large. "One of the components ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... trade after the release of mixed economic data. Consumer prices fell 0.7 per cent in January, while orders for US durable goods rose 2.8 per cent. In Europe stocks pushed higher, as chances of a quick US interest rate hike recede. Locally, the Reserve ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... makes interest rate decision. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases building approvals and international trade in goods and services data, both for December The Dun and Bradstreet business expectations survey and the ANZ-Roy Morgan weekly consumer ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... $33.21 and Westpac was 19 cents higher at $34.65. JB Hi-Fi shares rose 16.5 cents to $16.915, after the home and electronic goods retailer announced a small slide in first half profit but reaffirmed its full-year sales forecast of $3.6 billion. Outdoor ...

A Fed surprise?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... reasons for Wall Street's fall while we slept - it's concerns over US growth following a "surprise" 3.4% drop in durable goods orders (the fourth straight month of declines); it's company earnings disappointments (which raise concerns over US growth). ...

Reasons to cheer amid gloomy predictions

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... will be the next to benefit from construction growth, as "people first buy a house, and then they buy furniture and white-goods to put in it." Falling oil prices are also likely to have a positive impact on the sector. However, Australia will go through ...