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Victim of success

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
... third quarter UK GDP growth to accelerate to 0.8% from 0.7% in the previous three months. The rising momentum in economic activity has prompted the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to upgrade 2013 and 2014 growth forecasts for the nation in the October ...

Future Fund boosts exposure to global equities, infra

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
... time, it has reduced its exposure to debt securities and alternatives. "Across economies, policy efforts to lift economic activity have been maintained and markets broadly have continued to respond positively," Future Fund managing director Mark Burgess ...

Catastrophe bonds offer answer to asset correlation problem

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
... or a storm off the east coast of New York, do or do not occur. This means that returns are unrelated to the economic activity. In the wake of the global financial crisis, and against a backdrop of lower investment returns in traditional markets, investors ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2013
... Australasia (FINSIA) Financial Services Conference in Sydney. The Westpac-Melbourne Institute Leading Indexes of Economic Activity report is due out. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Tuesday was almost unchanged as strength ...

30 days hath September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... euro area still has a lotta work to do - not least, the still unemployment rate in the region - but recovering economic activity, along with improving business and consumer confidence, should help to keep things moving along nicely.A Unemployment, after ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2013
... was up 13 points at 5,064. In economic news on Wednesday, the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Leading Indexes of Economic Activity is due out. In equities news, Suncorp Group, Boral, Asciano, PaperlinX, Super Retail Group, The Reject Shop, Seek and iiNet ...

North Asian cyclical stocks 'unjustifiably cheap'

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013
... manipulate," he explained. "Instead we build up a larger picture from all the other data we collect. Measures of economic activity such as power, cement and steel consumption, as well as auto production point to a tightening, but by no means a collap ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... with high gold prices offering some support while a string of uneven US earnings fuelled investor caution over economic activity. Meanwhile, the Tokyo stock market was lifted by a big parliamentary election win for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... Statistics releases the merchandise import figures for June, while the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Leading Indexes of Economic Activity is also due out. In equities news, BHP Billiton, Gindalbie Metals, Perseus Mining and Iluka Resources are slated to ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
... releases May's international merchandise imports figures, while the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Leading Indexes of Economic Activity is also due out. Nine Network chief executive David Gyngell is keynote speaker at Sydney FC in Business luncheon in Sydney. ...