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New AFS CEO

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012
Former ANZ advice executive Alan Logan has been revealed as the new chief executive officer of Australian Financial Services (AFS). Logan joins AFS from private consultancy Bombora Advice, and before this was general manager for ANZ Advice and Distribution. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012
The Australian stock market opened stronger on Wednesday, with a strong earnings report from the Commonwealth Bank giving the market a boost in the early session of trading. At 1018 AEST on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 16 points ...

Dull night on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012
The suspense is killing, the wait... boring. Fresh data were released out of America and Europe while we slept, but the results more or less did nothing to alter what financial markets already know or speculate about. There was nothing that surprised ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open flat after Wall Street pared early gains to close similarly flat. At 0752 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract was up two points at 4,258. In economic news on Wednesday ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
The Australian market looks set to open slightly higher despite Wall Street finishing mainly in the red after disappointing economic data out of Japan and Greece and no stimulatory measures from China. At 0753 AEST on Tuesday, the September share price ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
Australian shares were higher at opening as hope continued for improvement in the European debt crisis. At 1015 AEST on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 31.8 points, or 0.74 per cent, at 4,309.1 while the broader All Ordinaries index was ...

The QE Paradox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... our economy continue to be lucky - the unemployment rate dipped to 5.2% in July, retail sales grew by 5.4% in the year to June (the fastest since 2009) and home loan approvals bounced back by 1.3% in June. According to UBS, "Markets have a little more ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
The Australian market looks set to open slightly higher after a seesaw session overnight on Wall Street, which ended flat, uninspired by modestly promising US jobs and trade data. At 0745 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract ...

Known knowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... only 2.0% over the next two years (from 2.5% estimated only three months before), German factory orders dropped by 1.7% in June (more than twice as much as the 0.8% fall) and Spanish 10-year bond yields have risen again. And so they should. Nothing has ...

Blahs take the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
Another day, another blah to keep risk takers happy. Yes Virginia, in keeping up with our Olympics theme, it's turning out to be a blah relay. This time, Eric S. Rosengren -- president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston - is running with the blah ...