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Central Banks hold fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2008
The week of central watching finished with the Reserve Bank of Australia, the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England opting to hold monetary policy steady this month. Fixed income markets rallied overnight following unchanged ...

Eyes on the labour market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2008
The Australian Bureau of Statistics will release the Australian Labour Force report today. Market expectations centre on a meager 5K increase in jobs in July and the unemployment rate to rise to 4.3 percent. This forecast represents a softening from ...

Fed does an RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
The RBA did not disappoint market expectations and announced no change in the official interest rate of 7.25 percent while markets interpreted the RBA's accompanying statement as an indication that an interest rate reduction is in the offing. In its ...

V-Wrap sales sky rocket

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
Praemium's online portfolio administration service, V-Wrap attracted a record number of new sales in the past two months, increasing by 20 and 30 per cent in June and July respectively compared to the same period's last year. Arthur Naoumidis, Praemium ...

New era in fee disclosure

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
Thousands of planners are at risk of losing their industry accreditation if they haven't complied with a little known industry guideline on trail fees that took effect this year. Two years ago, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) introduced four ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to decline after US equities fell on worries about accelerating inflation. Resource stocks may slip after commodities including oil and gold declined overnight. At 0735 AEST on the Sydney Futures exchange, the ...

Central bank watch

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
This Week's Market Movers (28 Jul - 1 Aug 2008) Monetary policy comes to the fore this week with the central banks of Australia, the United States, the Eurozone and the UK all meeting to deliberate on appropriate interest rate settings given the growth-inflation ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
The Australian stock market remained in the red at noon, dragged down by a negative lead on Wall St and a big profit fall at bank and insurer Suncorp Metway Ltd. US stocks slipped 1.8 per cent on weak readings on economic growth and rising jobless claims. ...

US growth disappoints

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
... ninth consecutive year-on-year fall and the largest monthly decline in 20 years. Also, UK consumer confidence fell to -39 in July - the lowest on record. Meanwhile, Eurozone headline CPI increased to 4.1 percent in the year to July to its highest level ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to fall about one per cent after Wall St was rocked by disappointing US economic growth and job market figures. On the Sydney Futures exchange, the September share price index futures contract fell 48 points ...