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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
... now and the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) interest rate decision, due at 1430 AEST. While an AAP survey of all 12 economists were unanimous the central bank board would leave the cash rate unchanged at 4.75 per cent, the focus was expected to be ...

It's official, Rudd saved Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... the Australian economy but because mining is a predominantly export industry that employs only about 200,000 people. Economists will say it's simplistic - and they'd be right - but when the Australian government was expecting the GFC tsunami the number ...

Manufacturing's Gerry Harvey moment

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... that don't deserve our sympathy. But there is a bright side. Politicians, business leaders, policymakers and senior economists are finally talking about Australia's real problem - the nation's slack productivity growth record especially over the last ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2011
... Data out overnight showed US durable goods orders in July rose four per cent,much better than the 2.4 percent increase economists had expected. Market sentiment this week has been driven by expectations that US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke will ...

Fed policy options galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... and I even dreamed about the GFC. I counted eight policy options in all in his prepared remarks before the National Economists Club in Washington entitled, "Deflation: Making Sure "It" Doesn't Happen Here". He's already deployed two - zero interest rate ...

Digit says recession averted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... shot. Not when the less volatile four-week moving average of claims remains at 400K - the magic number calculated by economists as that which separates job losses from job improvement. Just think how foolhardy this is - watching the jobless claims numbers ...

Fed move checks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... pressure on inflation around the globe. When the Fed announced QE2 last November, Bloomberg reported that, "A group of 23 economists, money managers and former government officials issued an open letter to Bernanke on Nov. 15 saying the central bank's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... country's economy generated 117,000 jobs in July and cut the official US unemployment rate down a notch to 9.1 per cent. Economists had forecast only a net 84,000 jobs generated. The mildly positive surprise on jobs came despite a drumbeat of bad economic ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... before the release of residential building approval figures for June, which at a fall of 3.5 per cent were well below economists' forecasts of a rise of 2.5 per cent. Financial, healthcare, and materials stocks led the market lower. Among the big banks ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... government reported that US gross domestic product grew just 1.3 per cent in the second quarter, a much slower pace than economists had expected. Notably, the government also slashed its estimate for first-quarter GDP growth from 1.9 per cent to just ...