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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... the minutes of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) August board meeting, due on Tuesday. "The RBA board minutes will be pretty key for the Aussie dollar, given the market has about 50 basis points of cuts priced in at the next meeting," Mr Burrowes ...

ETF provider wants to expand asset class range

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... constraints on being able to offer fixed income ETFs in Australia currently but the regulators are working on that and we feel pretty confident that as it expands the ETF market will expand with it," SSgA is the world's second biggest ETF provider with ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... "The concern now is whether there will be a double-dip in the US market, and secondly, the European situation is still pretty dire." Overseas markets, trading for the first time since Standard and Poor's downgraded US debt after market closed on Friday ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... main focus when the local stock market opened on Monday. "Unless there is some sort of breakthrough, it's going to be a pretty nervous start, given the increasing risk that America might not reach a deal in time," Dr Oliver said on Sunday. "Which in ...

It's a deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... sentiment index fell to 63.7 in July -- to the lowest level since March 2009 -- from 71.5 in the previous month. Looks pretty grim - but financial markets already expected this first half weakness. The same way they - and the Fed - anticipate growth ...

DC theatrics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
... Fed's view that the recent slowdown in economic activity was just transitory. It could be more than a bump in the road. I'm pretty sure that this economic concern would litter the headlines again once the debt ceiling stalemate becomes game, set and ...

New tool launched to gear SMSFs into property

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... Standard that being able to pay down a mortgage on a property by using contributions all inside of super sounded like a pretty attractive proposition for young SMSF clients in the accumulation phase. Multiport offered a series of case studies in which ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... terms of what to do with the second Greek bail-out package," Ms Ong said. "That saw the euro jump quite significantly and pretty much dragged the Aussie... all the way up to 107.70." Ms Ong said the market would wait to see more details come out of the ...

Fidelity sees market ripe for growth investments

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2011
... Rio Tinto, Iluka, Map Airports, Oil Search, Wesfarmers and Commonwealth Bank. "I think in Australia the overall market is pretty attractively priced, valued back below 12 times with some good quality companies with strong balance sheets and growth prospects," ...

Consultant warns super funds on alternative rush

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... and they're just going to be made very expensive and you get poor liquidity, ordinary diversification in many cases and pretty ordinary returns compared to BHP," said Condon. The former MLC chief investment officer described insurance linked securities ...