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Limbo of uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
... all other equity markets around the world. And China's smack bang thank you ma'am economic growth of 7.5% in the June quarter suggests that Australia can still count on its biggest trading partner for some lift, albeit smaller. How much higher domestic ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
... per cent to finish at 3,878.58 points. China's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 7.5 per cent in the April-June quarter, official data showed on Monday, a second slowdown in growth in a row. The euro fell to $US1.3058 from $US1.3066 late in New ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... investors for Monday will be the release of important Chinese economic data detailing economic growth for June and the June quarter. IG market strategist Stan Shamu said he expected local gains to be mild until investors saw what was happening in China. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics is due to release labour force data for June. The NAB June quarter Australian residential property survey is also due out. In equities news, Arrium mining and minerals chief executive Andrew ...

The others

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
... mend in Japan. The BOJ's Tankan survey of business manufacturing sentiment increased to a reading of plus 4 in the June quarter - the first positive reading since September 2011 - from minus 8 in the first. And get this...confidence among Japanese manufacturers ...

Retail managed funds' fortune set to slide

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
Retail managed funds grew by 4.5% in the March quarter, but this growth is likely to be undone by a poor June quarter, according to figures released by Plan For Life Actuaries & Researchers. Overall retail managed funds grew by $24 billion in the first ...

CIO confidence slumps to nine-month low

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013
... September 2012, according to the Financial Services Council (FSC)'s latest Chief Investment Officer Index. In the June quarter, the index stood at seven from a range of -100 to 100, where a score of zero is considered neutral. This is down from 35 for ...

Planners must boost SMSF specialisation: SPAA

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
... complicated by the changing nature of SMSF demographics. According to Australian Taxation Office (ATO) data in the June quarter 2012, the most active SMSF members were those aged between 45 and 54, accounting for 31% of new members, with those aged between ...

Better 2013 outlook risks complacency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... gained currency last year. To be sure, to be sure, US real GDP growth slowed to an annualised rate of 1.3% in the June quarter of 2012, but that's no recession my friends and it certainly isn't looking like it'll have one this year. Not with the rebound ...

It's just plain dumb

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
... Australians are worried because our real GDP growth slowed to 3.1% in the year to the third quarter from 3.8% in the June quarter and, according to the Australian Business Economist forecasting panel, would ease further to 2.8% next year. Boyoboyoboy ...