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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
The Australian equities market powered ahead at noon as rising optimism about the troubled US financial sector helped boost local banking stocks. At 1205 AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had spiked 154.5 points, or 3.18 per cent, to 4994.4, while ...

Inflation outlook dim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
... 1.28 percent. In other news, US industrial production increased by 0.5 percent in June, driven by a surprise 5.4 percent spike in motor vehicles as the suppliers' strike ended. But with consumer spending weakening, this jump in motor vehicles is expected ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
... Freddie Mac sparking fears of more heavy losses in the US sub-prime mortgage crisis. Adding to the turmoil were a sharp spike in oil prices to fresh record highs and another slide in the US dollar, all against a backdrop of political unease over Iran ...

Economy slowing down and speeding up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2008
The just released minutes of last month's Reserve Bank Board meeting show that while the board believes the economy is slowing, the rising terms of trade is pushing the economy hard in the opposite direction. "Board members noted that the bulk of indicators ...

Market wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
... SYDNEY - The Australian share market is expected to open lower after a poor performance on Wall Street overnight as a renewed spike in oil prices worried investors. At 0756 AEST on the Sydney Futures exchange, the June share price index was down 90 points ...

QIC develops better anti-inflation strategy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2008
Rising world inflation has sparked QIC to develop more innovative ways of insulating their investors from the negative impacts it will have on their long term savings. QIC noted that inflation is now moving into the fifth year of being above its long ...

Instos change mandate strategies

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
... which rose five-fold during the year, up from 12 real estate investment searches in 2006 to 62. Against this 20 per cent spike in alternative assets, the number of investment manager searches from Australian institutions fell by 25 per cent to only 82 ...

CPI, housing affordability and oil bills

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
Yesterday's CPI spike just made fighting inflation and housing affordability that little bit harder but at least it will help the country pay for its oil import bill. Inflation rising 4.2 per cent, above what most market economists were expecting, is ...

Retail profits, currency price cuts and ag-flation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
Fighting inflation may be the government's number one policy fight right now, but another should be fighting contradictory policy suggestions and forcing retailers to pass on currency induced price cuts. Australia's major economic debate is how the ...

Lifeplan appoints new solutions manager

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2008
... training to our growing business development team and financial planning groups across the country." "We also needed to meet a spike in demand for technical assistance and training for a newly launched tax-advantaged education investment fund, which ...