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Pooled funds lose cash

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
Money is flowing out of managed funds and into bank accounts and independently managed accounts (IMAs), industry watchers said yesterday. According to Rainmaker research, $86.4 billion dollars flowed into bank deposits in the December quarter last year ...

Shopping till unemployment drops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
... relative thrift, consumers may be parting with their money more willingly simply due to pent-up demand, something industry watchers are calling "frugality fatigue." The WSJ could use the exact sentence to explain the latest US retail sales report released ...

Hooray it's Oprah day

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
... broadcast in 145 countries might therefore be part of grand plan that is far bigger than targeting just her 7 million US watchers - an audience that is now waning compared to her 1992 peak of 13 million regular viewers. The global objectives of the visit ...

Indian pension funds poised for growth

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... system could foster a "shareholder society" that will underpin the country's equity markets for years to come, market watchers say. India, like most emerging market economies, has no universal retirement safety net. But over the past decade, authorities ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... advanced 131.94 points, or 0.67 per cent, to end at 19,922.22 points. Turnover was $HK59.62 billion ($A8.74 billion). Market-watchers expected the market to move in a tight range ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday that begins on Saturday. WELLINGTON ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
... 19,665.08. It was the index's lowest level since September 2. Turnover was $HK77.47 billion ($A11.51 billion). Market watchers said the index could bottom out at 19,200. WELLINGTON - The benchmark NZX-50 index closed down 43.9 points, or 1.4 per cent ...

Lost decade redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... point. The world ex-Japan, that is. The rebound in long-term interest rates has worried economic and financial market watchers recently. Rising long rates have sparked concerns - particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom - that if these ...

US Fed hints rates holiday may be over

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2007
... reduction of the discount rate penalty by 50 basis points in August followed this approach even though sceptical market watchers weren't so sure. "It was intended not to help particular institutions but rather to open up a source of liquidity to the ...

Sub-prime currency fall-out

SUZY MAC IS ON LEAVE  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2007
... price goes through the roof. Today it is trading into the US$84-plus zone. Prices like these are way beyond what market watchers think is reasonable. "These are ridiculously high oil prices and should come down shortly," said a CommSec spokesperson on ...

Ignore economics, investors are herders

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2007
Investment finance and economics are driven by very different principles and analysts and market watchers who think otherwise are making a huge mistake, according to a new study published in the Journal of Behavioral Finance. In particular, The Financial/Economic ...