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Wage costs jump 4.3 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2008
... ticket movers inflation was a much more respectable 2.2 per cent, reported the ABS earlier this year. The housing price spike that reached 12 per cent if we consider just prices is so severe however that an online poll conducted by X Inc Finance found ...

Fear brings opportunity for the wise

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
Buy, sell, or run for the hills? January's Black Tuesday saw the axing of over $100 billion from the share market, but savvy investors will realise the ailing stock market still boasts lucrative investment opportunities. According to a report by wise-owl ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
... pretty flat. "Any company that is flat is probably doing quite well." Shares in Rio Tinto have settled back down from a spike seen on Friday when rumours of a sweetened takeover bid by rival BHP Billiton were rife, he added. "That's been denied by BHP ...

MFS director waves goodbye

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
Investors of property and tourism investment company MFS may be nervously waiting the decision on City Pacific's $830 million offer for the firm's funds management business, but one of the firm's non-executive director, Michael Hiscock, won't be staying ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... slash its dividend and cut 4,200 jobs to help shore up its balance sheet. Mr Solar said the Citigroup news had prompted a spike in risk aversion with high-yielding currencies such as the Australian dollar losing out as a result. "The market is really ...

A tale of two currencies

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2007
... surpassing the July high and rising to JPY107.74, its highest in 16-years. Treasurer Peter Costello noted last month the currency spike's effect on the national economy, saying "It's a very mixed thing... good for travelers overseas, good for importers ...

Race to the pump

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2007
... resulting in crude oil hitting a new record over $US93 cents a barrel. A storm in the Gulf of Mexico has caused this latest spike, when as a consequence Mexico's state oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, announced it would close a fifth of its ...

Scary markets II

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2007
Offshore markets rolled over and played dead again overnight, scared silly by another petrol price spike, while the Aussie dollar continued to run on ahead. The Australian dollar rose to a fresh 23-year high of 0.9090, after opening in London at 0.9030 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
The Australian stock market has received a negative lead from Wall Street, and from London where metal prices tumbled across the board last night. At 0736 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, however, the December Share Price Index was up 32 points ...

Super changes push SMSFs through planner doors

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2007
... impetus, 42 per cent going and talking to a financial planner, as a result of the super changes, which has led to this massive spike in the number currently using a financial planner for advice on their self managed super fund." However, two-thirds of ...