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AUD to fall in second half of 2008: KBC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2008
The slowing world economy will dampen demand for Australian commodities, which will slow demand for our dollar and see the AUD drop in value by year's end, said KBC Asset Management in its latest world round-up report. "The declining demand for raw ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher after US equities and metals, including gold and copper, increased overnight. At 0749 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index futures contract was up 14 points at 5,679. In ...

Market bottom approaches, recovery expected soon

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
Investors need to put the latest stock market correction into perspective as it is just a five-yearly pattern repeating itself, explained the KBC investment banking group that is represented in Australia and New Zealand by Liontamer, in a recent global ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
The Australian share market was stronger at noon after oil and gold reached record prices overnight, encouraging investors to buy resource stocks. The Australian market followed US equities, which advanced overnight also after credit rating agency Standard ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after a positive lead from Wall Street. At 0637 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was up 70 points at 5215. Today, New Zealand retailer The Warehouse Group ...

Australia catches Dutch Disease

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
There's not much point to Australia's terms of trade being at record levels if all it does is drive up our currency and keeps us suffocating under a current account deficit that just won't budge. The terms of trade are a measure of the prices we pay ...

Our rates a global sideshow

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2008
Slowing world growth, a collapsing US dollar and a still very nervous global credit market won't slow down world capital flows but rather increase them, said McKinsey in its latest newsletter. "Amid the turmoil, it's easy to forget that long-term structural ...

Unsticking the CAD

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
The real story in yesterday's rates rise is that despite the surging economy making the rate rise necessary, the current account deficit (CAD) is still stuck on 6 per cent. According to the ABS, our CAD has been 5.5 to 6 per cent of GDP for the last ...

Sub-prime's house of cards

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
Like a house of cards near an open window, many things tumbled overnight - US shares, the ASX/S&P 200, Asian stocks, the FTSE, US bond yields, gold, base metals, the Aussie dollar and, on the upside, oil prices also dropped. Asian markets tumbled after ...

Race to the pump

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2007
Fill up now, and expect to pour more cash into the tank next time, as new supply problems and increasing tensions in the Middle East have the price of oil flirting with US$94 a barrel for the first time ever. It's official; the price of oil has climbed ...