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Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2006
The Australian share market is expected to open sharply weaker, weighed down by heavy stock market falls globally after the US Federal Reserve hinted at a hike in interest rates. On the Sydney Futures Exchange the June share price index contract was ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2006
US financial markets took a beating overnight with the stock market, the bond market and the US dollar all retreating. The S&P 500 index fell by 1.8 per cent - the worst performance since January 20, the Dow Jones average fell by a similar 1.8 per cent ...

All is fair in love and bankruptcy

Small business mums and dads will be the worst affected by the new bankruptcy rule that allows bankruptcy trustees to take away the family home even if only one spouse goes bankrupt, regardless of who paid what for the property. Geoff McDonald, barrister ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2006
The Australian share market is expected to open weaker, pushed down by losses on Wall Street. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 81 points lower at 5054. On the day the Reserve Bank of Australia holds its monthly ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2006
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will meet again tomorrow to deliberate on domestic monetary policy settings. Financial markets expect the RBA not to immediately follow-up last month's 25-basis point rate hike, which took the official cash rate to ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2006
The Australian share market is expected to open slightly firmer as strong base metal prices and a higher oil price set a positive the tone for the local bourse. On the Sydney Futures Exchange the June share price index contract was ahead six points ...

Emerging markets out, Japan in

The latest weekly report by US-based Emerging Portfolio Fund Research (EPFR) revealed that investors are bailing out of the market with $10 billion of outflows on equity funds tracked by the group in the week ending May 24. The research firm also reported ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2006
The Australian share market is expected to open firmer as bargain hunters are expected to emerge after heavy falls through the month of May. The share market in May recorded a 4.9 per cent drop in the S&P/ASX200, month on month, the biggest recorded ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2006
As expected, Australia's trade deficit narrowed to $1.1 billion in April, a 27.6 per cent improvement from the revised March shortfall of $1.5 billion and better than market expectations for a deficit of $1.4 billion. Exports, or what the ABS term as ...

Investors get money back from failed mortgage scheme

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2006
Thirty-seven Queensland investors have recovered money invested in a failed solicitor's mortgage scheme which the Federal Court found negligently and deliberately misled them. Led by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the class ...