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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 ...

Other play factors

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... have risen by 0.8 per cent in the June quarter for an annual pace of 3.5 per cent, according to an AAP survey of 14 economists. For underlying inflation, which strips out unusually large quarterly movements, the median forecast is 0.7 per cent for a ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... the weekend and again throughout Monday over whose debt-and-deficit reduction plan was better, while investors and economists urged a deal to prevent, at least, a downgrade of the country's AAA standing as a borrower, and at worst, Washington being forced ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Adrian Blundell-Wignall, addresses an Australian Business Economists' luncheon on "Sovereign debt in the EU and US: implications for banking". Gold miner Newcrest Mining and oil and gas producer ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... The news dispelled concerns that a string of interest rate hikes by Beijing would lead the economy to a hard landing, economists said. However, they did warn that prices could be capped by a worsening global economic outlook, with fears the eurozone ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... hand back the gains it made on Friday, Mr Herring said. Only 18,000 jobs were created in June, 83 per cent fewer than economists forecast, which pushed the US unemployment rate up to 9.2 per cent, the US Labour Department said. As well, China's inflation ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... up to 0.7 per cent on Wall Street indices on Friday. Only 18,000 jobs were created in June, 83 per cent fewer than economists forecast. That pushed the US unemployment rate up to 9.2 per cent, the US Labour Department reported on Friday. The federal ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... purchasing managers index for the manufacturing sector for June, which climbed 1.8 per cent from May, much better than economists had forecast. But that came after a sharp seven per cent drop in May from April, and the June index remained far below the ...

Bank stocks rise on Greek confidence

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... passed the first of two austerity packages while violent protests continued against the deeply unpopular reforms. But economists and market commentators have warned that the austerity package and associated bailout money only defers the inevitable default ...

Property up, interest rate rises: BIS Shrapnel

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... reportedly said it expected interest rate rises that could push mortgage rates up to 9.4 per cent by 2014. A survey of 24 economists by the Financial Review found that all of them expected Australia's gross domestic product to rise forcing the Reserve ...