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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... cent to 12,342 units in January, seasonally adjusted, from an upwardly revised 14,682 units in December. "Housing held up pretty well over the past year," Mr Turner said. "There was a big fall in the Other' component of the data, which is used as a proxy ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... in the December quarter in adjusted chain volumes measures was also up 0.8 per cent. "You put all that together and it's pretty strong data," Mr Roberts said. "In real terms we get about $2.2 billion in contribution to gross domestic product (GDP). The ...

AFA takes the lead with consumer campaign

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... last three years, but that it's focus is now changing as a result of the expected reforms. "We have been charged with some pretty significant mandates, and over 2010 the AFA positioned the advice world that there was going to be change and everyone had ...

I heart the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... a combination, on the latest figures, of a 5 per cent unemployment rate and an inflation rate clearly 'in the 2's' is a pretty favourable one by the standards of recent decades." These were Stevens' words when testified before the House of Representatives ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... force on the market, other than the fact that you've still got Commonwealth Bank doing extraordinarily well after it's pretty robust result yesterday," he said on Thursday. Major banks were mixed at noon. Commonwealth Bank was up 37 cents at $55.44 ...

Aus equities forecast to return 20pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
... that the market is heading for an upswing but said for the ASX200 to reach 6,000 points, investors need to first see a "pretty sizeable upgrade" to earnings. "Generally, when you look at the sharemarket, it's not particularly cheap, not particularly ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
... showed their economy was continuing to improve, boosting confidence on the local market. "With that lead, we wanted to see a pretty buoyant opening to the local market, and we did," Mr Heffernan said. "When you look across the top 20 ASX listed companies ...

Chimerica threat looms over returns

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
... gone through the aggressive fixed investment type of approach that China has had, have a hard landing." "The Chinese are pretty clearly trying to slow it down, their economy and their property market pretty aggressively, they are worried about the same ...

Investors tap emerging market debt

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... attractive investment proposition, while their comparatively low volatility only adds to the appeal. Murphy said there is a "pretty strong thesis" that investors can receive an added pickup from investments in local currency bonds as those currencies ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
... with 17,054 contracts traded. Around five stocks had risen for every decline in the S&P/ASX50 at noon. "It looks like a pretty positive day," IG Markets research analyst Ben Potter said from Melbourne. "They are pretty much broad-based gains in the local ...